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...Howard Wilcox Haggard, director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, deplores drunken driving, believes that a combination of "science, law and common sense . . . [will] diminish alcoholic motor fatalities." In The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Haggard and assistants Leon A. Greenberg and Louis H. Cohen held up their end of the combination and offered legal advice to police, simple physiological advice to drivers...
With 581 men still under Plan A, the ratio is approximately 2-1 in favor of full tutorial instruction, University officials declined to state if his was to be a permanent ratio, or if they expect to increase or diminish the number on modified tutorial in future years...
...European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will be to the growth of that right temper between nations which alone can diminish the recurring threats...
...greatest concentration of wealth. This led him to postulate that concentration of wealth derived from legitimate business profits is a concomitant of general prosperity, while concentration from speculation (as in 1929) or war profits (as in 1863-65) is not. His inference: "Any measures that may be taken to diminish the concentration of wealth and income should discriminate sharply between the socially desirable and socially undesirable forms of income, and great care should be exercised not to reduce business activity by too closely limiting the opportunities for legitimate business profits...
...been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue became a boomerang to improve, instead of diminish, "Cotton Ed's" chance of a sixth consecutive term...