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...city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year later she made her first important contribution to preventive medicine - the discovery of a strain of diphtheria bacillus which produced an extremely virulent toxin. It made possible mass production of the anti-diphtheria serum which has nearly banished that dis ease from the world. Dog-bite victims once had to wait ten awful days to know if they had contracted rabies. In 1904, Dr. Williams and an Italian investigator discovered, simultaneously but independently, the bodies in the animal's nerve cells which apparently cause the disease. By devising a quick...
...city's opera reputation. She has been quietly attending all the Orchestra's board meetings. She still owns the scenery and costumes used by the Philadelphia Grand Opera. Only a professional com pany can give her Curtis Institute pupils the experience they need. The Philadelphia Grand Opera dis banded when Curtis Publishing, earnings were about at their low. Now Curtis no longer owns the money-losing New York Evening Post* And the Saturday Evening Post was 1 24 pages thick last week. In 1930 it went under...
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...disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only to a dis-economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting in the existing department, and, while they're at it, pushing the statistical branches over to the Department of Commerce would be two reforms whose value would be in considerable excess of their difficulty...
...other trick to stop tax evasions was announced by Mr. Morgenthau. Here after every taxpayer's return must be signed by the expert or lawyer, if any, who advised him in figuring his debt to the Treasury. Thus if arrant crockery is found, the lawyer responsible may be dis barred. Respectable lawyers will give their clients shyster advice only at the risk of their reputations. For this new tax wrinkle U. S. lawyers can thank Earle Bailie, partner in the banking house of J. & W. Seligman...