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...playwright, because he has a larger and more varied audience; and because his product goes into the home, and to all members of the family. . . . "Such a great and all-pervading influence must be kept wholesome and beneficial; in fact, it must even be exercised in a way to compel literature and the drama also to be wholesome and beneficial-as far as may be reasonable, within the more restricted limits of their narrower spheres." Taking up the question of whether the publication of crime news prevents or incites crime, Mr. Hearst concluded that it had very little effect either...
...extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity"--let us indulge in, some reflections as to the reasons for the unshaken hold in public esteem which Beethoven as a character enjoys and for the reverent admiration his works still compel. We may frankly acknowledge that it is a puzzling matter to state in cold language why a work of art is great, and we are baffled to trace the connection between the personality and environment of an artist and his message. These problems are often more acute in music...
...skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain dangerous poisons as ingredients of cosmetics and to compel all makers of cosmetics to make truthful representations of their products."?Arthur J. Cramp, sharp-tongued, ruthless quack-killer and nostrum-chaser for the A. M. A., compiler of the Association's reference book, Nostrums & Quackery...
Furnace Case. Famed, also aged, the seven-year-old Claire Furnace Co. case last week bobbed up before the U. S. Supreme Court for tho third time. It involves the right of the Federal Trade Commission to compel manufacturers engaged in interstate commerce to supply monthly information concerning the condition of their business. The Supreme Court ruled that a bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question...
...military judges, sitting in stiff gold braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...