Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief among the medical men summoned by California's Senator Hiram Johnson before the committee were Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, cancer researchers at the Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco. White-haired, horn-spectacled Dr. Coffey related his and his colleague's joint research, explained that their widely heralded "cancer cure" was "not a cure but an encouraging experiment." Dr. Coffey said that 1,506 cases, more than 1,300 them inoperable, had been treated with gratifying results. The Coffey-Humber extract, derived from the adrenal glands, which, when injected into a cancer sufferer...
...APPLE CART-George Bernard Shaw talks on the value of kings...
When the naval conference first came into being, the opinion was generally prevalent that disarmament would take place. It was wildly suggested that war might even be abolished altogether. In the midst of the journalistic paean of praise that followed, Bernard Shaw was heard to remark that the only thing that the conference would determine would be whether the next war would be fought with twelve or eighteen inch guns. Perhaps the great dramatist had seen too many post-war scraps of paper scattered before the wind of national feeling and industrial competition...
...Apple Cart. In the later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...
...Bernard Lichtenberg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, will speak on "Determination, of the Advertising Appropriation," and short talks will be given by Professors N. S. B. Gras '09, C. F. Taeusch '20, and N. H. Borden...