Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your comment (Sept. 21) on what Mr. Herman Seydel is said to have called his "long-sought single cure for arthritis," you take occasion to characterize the American Medical Association as an organization which takes the "attitude that no one should know anything at all about anything which might not be good for him."Were TIME an irresponsible, anti-medical sheet, the statement could be ignored, but I have always felt that TIME, in its discussions of medical matters, is generally sound as well as sympathetic to the problems of the medical profession...
...dumb layman who is much better versed in the pathology of alcohols than in the chemistry of benzoates, I am not qualified to comment on the chemist's claims. But as a' bored layman who is tired of all this prattle about professional ethics, and with the A.M.A. in its sanctimonious stand as the sole arbiter of human health; I am vaguely reminded of one Louis Pasteur, chemist, and of how the medical confession, in a united front, battled his method of inoculation with virus to combat and cure hydrophobia...
...authorities are directing their attention to the college, always the "pet" of Yale men. The recent introduction of a general examination system, thoroughly familiar to Harvard cars, will undoubtedly invite bitter criticism and stinging comment from some graduates, whose attitude has always been, "woe unto the barbarian who lays violent hands upon our venerable college...
...principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved to appeal the case to a higher British court this week...
Meanwhile Britain's press, resuming the regular Fleet Street routine on King Edward's return, generally told last week how distressed His Majesty appeared as he looked at pictures of working class slum houses shown to him at a new Housing Exhibition. His comment: "Pretty grim!" At sight of a poster reading Rents Still Too High, His Majesty nodded and inspected maps showing where they are too high-among other places in areas privately owned by King Edward. With what British papers described as a "grimace," His Majesty pointed out his own Duchy of Cornwall from which...