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...umpteenth time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
Prime mover of the Sears experiment is forthright, pink-cheeked General Robert Elkington Wood, 65-year-old Sears board chairman. An aggressive merchandiser, West Pointer Wood has long dreamed of chancing the Mexican market, but risks have always tempered his enthusiasm. They still do. Said Bob Wood last week: "Hell, this is strictly . . . a gamble . . . [but] we're hoping it will be a success and then we can go on and expand in Latin America...
Cheers. In Congress, the first reaction to the Crimean Charter was overwhelming approval. Said Majority Leader Alben Barkley: "A source of great gratification. . . ." Added Minority Leader Wallace H. White: "This speaks in forthright terms...
...Forthright Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos had already stated his views on an amnesty: "There will be neither proscriptions nor mass prosecutions. But there will be severe punishment by lawful authority of those who . . . committed offenses against the common law." Now Premier Plastiras postponed all pending ELAS trials, suspended five death sentences already imposed...
Thereupon, Henry Wallace launched into as clear, bristling and forthright a political speech as he has ever made. (Even Senator Vandenberg complimented him on his " able presentation.") Henry Wallace talked of implementing the President's "Economic Bill of Rights": of more jobs and more foreign trade, of increased post war production and a continued high national income, of high wages and a guaranteed annual wage, of safeguarding free enterprise for private industry and blasting monopolies and cartels, of more houses and better roads, of public works and more TVAs, of health insurance and expended social security and more education...