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...Coffey & Humber, who work for the Southern Pacific Co. in San Francisco, last year cautiously announced that they were alleviating hopeless cases of cancer by means of adrenal cortex extract derived from sheep. The Hearst press recognized the kernel of news in this announcement and puffed it so that thousands of cancer victims abandoned the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium, rushed for the sure-cure...
...doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...
...something of value," the critics "do question the way they have handled their work." The New York men are certain that their San Francisco colleagues have had no training to qualify for research in "the most complex field that exists" in medicine. They do not believe that adrenal cortex extract will cure cancer or that it has value in cancer treatment, yet are willing to experiment with it on animals. They fear that the Californians will experiment on New York humans, hence want them (or at least their methods; excluded, to remain in California where patients are ''abundantly available...
...advertisements. Salary-purchasers claim they do not lend money, but pay $50 for a $55 pay check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments of $10 a month for years. If the borrower complains they threaten to tell his employer and family, to let all the neighbors know. Most distasteful angle to this busi- ness is that the same victims are trapped again & again. Bankruptcies among families of small means often show that...
...first honorary A.M. granted by Harvard was conferred in 1703 on Thomas Wells. The Massachusetts Historical Society is authority for the following extract from Sewall's Diary under the date of July 7, 1703 (Commencement Day): "In the afternoon Mr. Wells of Almsbury is made a Master of Art. Mr. Belcher of Newbury Testified his Education under Mr. Andros at Ipswich, that he was a good Latin and Greek Scholar...