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Carl Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Julia Peterkin and Joseph Wood Krutch were the names signed to a letter (reported last week in the New Yorker) from the Literary Guild of America to the wardroom of the U. S. S. Warden. The letter was addressed "Mr. Wardroom Mess." The salutation: "Dear Mr. Mess...
...pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted to Indian riot and Burmese earth-quake.* No special foreign correspondents contributed these news stories; but spread across four of the column-tops was a stock photograph...
Immediately Montana's Democratic Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, than whom none has more bitterly flayed the Republican "reproduction cost" principle, arose at a Jefferson Day dinner in Manhattan to propose Governor Roosevelt for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. He specified two issues: 1) Tariff; 2) Power. Said he: "If the Democrats of New York will re-elect Franklin Roosevelt Governor, the West will then demand his nomination for President and the whole country will elect him in 1932." Others last week thought other things about Governor Roosevelt and Power...
Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House...
Last week in Manhattan, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a report on the Clinic re-echoing the warnings of Drs. Coffey & Humber was read by Dr. Burton Thorn Simpson, who spent three weeks there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied...