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...believe in and have not been thoroughly trained in the bacterial cause of infection. And what dire calamities would immediately and inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies of food and water and their sewage systems were controlled, not by men who had devoted long and arduous years to the medical sciences, but by those uninstructed and misinformed individuals who believe disease (for instance, typhoid and diphtheria) to result from the pressure of bony irregularities upon nerve...
Five pounds lighter from his jaunt afield to Arkansas, Texas, Indiana (TIME, June 22), Franklin Roosevelt settled down last week to the not-so-arduous business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...
More reason than one had Senator Harrison for his pessimism. Even after he got his bill out of committee, there would remain the arduous task of steering it through Floor debate and conference compromise. And this year Pat Harrison is eager to close up his desk, be off for home. It is not that he dislikes Washington, for no Senator enjoys life in the Capital more than this small town Mississippian. A one time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible...
...elected president of the New York Stock Exchange without opposition was Charles R. (for Richard) Gay. In an expression of appreciation for President Gay's arduous efforts to convince U. S. citizens that his is really a new deal administration, the Stock Exchange governing committee declared: ''He has sought, continually and aggressively and with demonstrable success, to remove the prejudices and misconceptions born of the Depression...
Back home in Independence, Alf Landon spent four years in a bank, then plunged into the oil business as an independent producer like his father. In that arduous and risky line-by enterprise, hard work, fair dealing and stiff bargaining-he made a fortune which is now estimated at from $250,000 to $2,000,000, invested chiefly in some 100 Kansas and Oklahoma wells he still owns. He also, in his comings & goings in search of oil, made friends all over Kansas. Shortly after his first wife died in 1918, Alf Landon volunteered for Army Service, was called...