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...with a full-page editorial. Excerpts: "The Broker-Age is the house organ of the Insurance Brokers' Association of New York, and as such, represents an insidious type of competition. With a board of directors composed of an influential group of brokers, controlling large lines, it can almost compel companies to advertise. Where this results in an impairment of the established business of the independent trade journals . . . we believe we have grounds for serious protest...
...Bloodgood's maddened cancer patients Dr. Cowles expects to calm with reason, compel with sense. Dr. Cowles will divide his time between Baltimore and Manhattan (traveling by plane), beginning soon after New Year's. How he deals with neurotic patients Dr. Bloodgood does not much care. Dr. Bloodgood's prime interest is to see many cancer cases, and to see them early in their disease...
...Henry W. Peabody's latest attack indicts the Democratic congressmen who hope to pass a bill legalizing three or four per cent beer as a revenue measure which will give the Federal Treasury $200,000,000 annually. "To insure such revenue," said Mrs. Peabody, "would compel everybody, men, women, and children, to drink several gallons of beer weekly." This single sentence will suffice to make her a national figure...
...this reason and because its professors are otherwise "unemployed" it will have difficulty getting other colleges to recognize its scholastic credits. It will have to keep its standing high, if any such recognition is to be made possible. Unsubstantial as the plan may seem, however, its aims should compel aid from better established institutions. And certainly such a "depression college" is a real challenge to the continued high cost of higher education...
...difficulty is the Speaker's insistence upon provision that loans should be made to individuals, private corporations, partnerships, states and municipalities on any conceivable security and for every purpose. Such an undertaking makes the Reconstruction Corp. the most gigantic banking and pawnbroking business in all history. ... It would compel the R. F. C. to deal with millions of people in terms of hundreds of thousands of small and large loans. It would require the extension of branch offices in every town and county and set up a huge bureaucracy able to dictate the welfare of millions of people...