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...flicker of photographers' bulbs. Eyes closed in resignation, J. P. Morgan took the stand for half an hour. Respectfully treated by SEC Lawyer Gerhard Gesell and evidently serene as to his position, Banker Morgan spoke with such aplomb that he even allowed a couple of mild witticisms to creep into his testimony. Excerpts...
Professor Pearl chose the New York Academy of Medicine, where he was invited to talk on "The Search for Longevity," to scare the life out of tobacco manufacturers and make tobacco users' flesh creep. He based his statement on what he sternly declared were the "first life [statistical] tables ever constructed to show the relation between tobacco smoking and longevity...
Crabwise march God's churches, usually, as they creep slowly toward Christian Unity. For believers in this great concept, to which the Roman Catholics alone offer a great obstacle (papal supremacy), last week was an active one. Churchmen took two steps forward, only one step backward...
...word of this did Franklin Roosevelt allow to creep into his public utterances. Business has never been the favorite child in his political family. That place has been, reserved for Business' weaker brother, the underprivileged "one third" of the U. S. population ("ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"). The President was at pains not to show any signs of changed feelings...
...Along the road [Carmel-San Simeon highway, opened late last month-TIME, July 5] are the mouths of many lonely and inaccessible cañons which creep away up into the Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this...