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...number of cures has been effected to evaluate properly its ultimate efficacy. We do not wish to arouse undue hopes in the minds of sufferers from acute rheumatic fever with the announcement of this report, realizing that there will be many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits of this discovery. Should confirmation be made that Dr. Small has isolated and identified the specific cause of this disease and has prepared a serum for its cure, we shall then have achieved a success rivaling no less a discovery than that of insulin...
Concerning Governor Smith of New York, Mr. White remarked: "There will have to be a change in the attitude toward big business before Al Smith can ever go to Washington. Personally, I con- sider that Al Smith represents the biggest, best, keenest and cleanest brain in American public life to-day-and I am a Republican...
...plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After the committee hearings, Mr. Gregg sat beside and advised Senator Reed Smoot (himself ranked as the greatest financial authority in Con- gress) while the tax bill was being debated in the Senate. The Coolidge Administration is proud of the 1924 tax law-and so is Mr. Gregg, no doubt. In 1925 he was made Solicitor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Now he is chief counsel for the Government...
...Walt Whitman of Sculp-ture." The Philadelphia Inquirer gave him a page of its magazine section one Sunday ("Glorifying America's Workingmen in Bronze and Marble") and the Literary Digest wrote in lively style of an "exhibition of sculpture, now stirring considerable comment, both pro and con...
...matter of fact, there was little comment con, and less pro, if by comment is meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry...