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...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
...from complacent was James Louis Garvin, editor of London's Sunday Observer and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Warned he: "In a few weeks at the furthest this vast problem will begin to tower over every other issue, and may affect parties and politics like nothing since the World...
...Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W. Bentley, Columbia University Spanish Instructor, Encyclopedia contributor (Sports); Dean F. Smiley, M. D., Cornell medical adviser. The Bulletin's preface was written by Carnegie Foundation President Henry Smith Pritchett himself, famed Astronomer, onetime (1900-1906) President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
When the directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...