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...everybody, in translating medical effort into commonplace terms. During last week's sessions a dozen important fellows of the College? Francis Carter Wood, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, John Carl Arpad Gerster, et al.? dined with journalists as guests of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Doctors distrust reporters, fearing inaccuracy and exploitation. Reporters are impatient of doctors, knowing they rarely can get a frank disclosure of news. This is an old impasse which the cancer men are again trying to hurdle. The public, after a few years of cancer consciousness, has again become apathetic. Surgeons are seeing more...
...created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust of her colleagues in the coal business...
Most interesting to the world audience is the friendly attitude with which this communistic representative has been received by the delegates of the capitalistic countries. According to close observers the distrust as to method and sincerity of the members of past League conferences which formerly have been so noticeable have disappeared, and expressions of friendliness towards the Soviet delegate have taken their place...
...nature, and offered little actual change from the naval relations as left by the Washington and London treaties, it would certainly aid the work of the World Conference to be held next year. The possible failure of the Franco-Italian accord would indirectly serve to magnify the existing distrust between the two countries, while England, through whom the agreement was originally drawn up, is new definitely on the side of Italy, and will do nothing more to patch the relationship. France, too, antagonized by the recent Austro-German customs relationship, is thoroughly on her guard. These added difficulties...
...paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public intelligence was his dream. Pessimistic passages in his writing give the same impression that one gets from hearing the precise, clipped accents of his speaking...