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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every mature person worries about cancer, yet few are acquainted with the simple facts of cancer prevention and cure. In an educational attempt to save some of the 150,000 U. S. citizens who are killed by the disease every year, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, famed researcher on cancer and heredity and head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, this week published the first calm, sensible handbook on cancer.* Significant facts...
...attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal last month published a melancholy letter signed "Lonely Man." The letter was headed: Would You Kill Yourself If You Had An Incurable Illness...
Quite apart from the fact that in all their pictures the Kids have undergone a miraculous, almost evangelical, reform, there is another and more obvious fallacy in the Commissioner's dialectic. The play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...
Also on the program is "Off the Record," set in a newspaper office that actually resembles a newspaper office, and concerning the attempt of Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien to reform a criminally inclined youngster, played by Bobby (Dead End) Jordan...
...closing his laboratory henceforth to "visits from citizens of totalitarian states" Dr. Bridgman has, to be sure, made a magnificent protest. As an attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...