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...successful Ross-Loos Clinic in Los Angeles. Rapidly growing, however, are cooperative clinics, established and owned by laymen who pay, in addition to initial stock investments, a small annual sum for medical care. Most conspicuous of the cooperatives is the Group Health Association in Washington, D. C., at whose behest the Government is now prosecuting an antitrust action against the American Medical Association. Most successful is the Community Hospital in Elk City, Okla., a clinic which serves 15,000 farmers throughout the southwestern part of the State...
...French version, Blanche Neige et Les SeptNains, was released in Manhattan. In French, Snow White's friends are called Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey), Prof (Doc), Joyeux (Happy), Timide (Bashful), Atchoum (Sneezy) and Dormeur (Sleepy). When the little men perform their reluctant ablutions at Snow White's housewifely behest, the words "BLUDDLE UM DUM" are dubbed in-which is eloquent soapiness in any language...
When government steps out of its "proper function" of economic regulation into economic control, it is usually a result of allegedly "temporary legislation" passed in the stress of emergency at the behest of pressure groups, Senator Millard Tydings said here tonight, in an address on "Pressure Groups in our American Democracy...
...Bishop Schrembs comes of a poor Bavarian family (16 children) which sent him to the U. S. at eleven, at the behest of a U. S. bishop whom he served at Mass. Bishop Schrembs is the hierarchy's ablest hymn-writer, hymn-singer, pianist and organist. His elevation to archbishop, symbolized by a lamb's-wool pallium (resembling a stole) which will be sent him from Rome, does not carry with it a like promotion for his diocese. His title will be : Archbishop Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland...
...also might have to train and commission Negro pilots. This prospect (awful to the all-white corps) loomed after the Senate passed the $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill (TIME, March 13). Besides upping the authorized strength of the Air Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, many another colored advocate of racial balance...