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Like Lady Macbeth, surgeons and x-ray specialists forever worry about their hands. Surgeons wring theirs to keep them supple, and pray that arthritis may never stiffen the joints. X-ray specialists search their hands for blemishes, and pray that x-ray burns may never compel an amputation...
Retorted Chairman Biddle: "It is un necessary to torture the meaning of plain language. The word 'may' permits but does not compel us to decline jurisdiction. . . ." Last week the Labor Relations Board reaffirmed its decision...
...London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...rich enough to employ, a private nurse at least one day each year, the 350,000 graduate nurses (R. N.s) would have steady year-round work. But there is by no means enough private nursing to go around. Last week the graduate nurses of the land set out to compel hospitals to hire them in place of student nurses. With no use for student nurses, hospitals would then have to discontinue their nursing schools. That, in turn, would compel the creation of independent, preferably university, nursing schools to supply trained nurses for both hospital and private practice...