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Theory. How "convulsant therapy" works, nobody knows. A score of theories have been offered, both physiological and strictly psychological. Boldest: 1) certain poisons invade the brain cells, cause schizophrenia, and shock treatment helps the body to combat these poisons; 2) the terrible fear of death caused by shock treatment inspires...
If in Buenos Aires last week tall, tea-colored José Santos Gollan, professor of journalism at the University of La Plata, had given prizes to the New York Times and the Minneapolis Journal, it would have been the exact reverse of a ceremony that took place in Manhattan. Instead...
Innumerable were the feats which won La Prensa its prize. For La Prensa is more than a newspaper: it is an institution worthy to rank with The Times of London (which it resembles) or the New York Times. Because of its exhaustive foreign coverage (La Prensa prints probably more cable...
No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground. But life in Canada went on under a haze of Governmental silence as profound as if...
So far these regulations have been lightly administered by genial, mountainous Director of Censorship Walter Scott Thompson. Born in England, Director Thompson was a newspaperman himself (as a correspondent for various London journals he covered assignments in South Africa, Australia, the South Sea Islands) before he went to Canada in...