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...When a doctor is proposed for A.A.P. member ship, the secretary sends cards with the candi date's name on them to all members for their comments. If there is no blackball, the doctor is unanimously elected. Between this elite corps and the American Medical Association (which will take almost any licensed physician not in trouble with the law) are about 165 national medical organizations, each with its own degree of exclusiveness and membership dues ranging from $5 (A.M.A.) to $40 (New York Academy of Medicine...
...Wendell Willkie portrait was also commissioned by the Tribune, for the usual $500. Mr. Doctoroff will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...
...Former Democratic Presidential Candi date Alfred Emanuel Smith. Willkie welcome: "His liberal principles were adopted by ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Lehman. ... I hope that nobody suggests that the warmhearted Al Smith ... is ... actuated by love of money rather than humanity...
Greenville citizens, writing to their news papers, accused President Roosevelt of ruling out Jimmy Byrnes for Vice President because of a rumor that he was once a Catholic. In Georgia theatres last week, for the first time in the memory of man, newsreel shots of a Republican candi date drew loud applause. In Alabama (which missed going Republican by only 7,000 votes in 1928) the State's first Willkie club was formed in Jasper, Speaker William Bankhead's home town, and Willkie's newsreel face was cheered...
...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...