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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco took the visiting dentists at their face value, bedecked the city with lavender & white bunting (A. D. A. colors), supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...
...nationwide movement called Socialized Medicine to give all U. S. citizens free medical service at government expense infuriates the dentists even more than it does the doctors. The American Medical Association, sure of its strength in legislative lobbies, has compromised somewhat with Socialized Medicine. The American Dental Association, aware that its lobbyists are unskilled, its numbers relatively small* and its antecedents plain, fights Socialized Medicine tooth & nail. Cried A. D. A. President Winter in his farewell address last week: "While history is in the making it is not for the American Dental Association to sit on the side lines after...
...last week on the Atlantic was the first ocean yacht race from Hamilton. Bermuda, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Sailing the 3,000-mile course and expected to finish this week were twelve little boats, seven from Germany, two from the U. S.. one each from The Netherlands, Sweden, the Free City of Danzig...
...obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that the Government stepped in and mildly recommended in renewing the charter that "the staff should be free from any control by the Corporation over their private lives." Another standing complaint against B. B. C. is the dullness of its Sunday fare. At the Government's suggestion, Sir John promised to seek "a better balance and a more attractive layout of the Sunday programs...
...Bishop wisely avoided mentioning excommunication, since the Church of England has not made use of that process in a century. But the Press did not hesitate to use that awful word, and although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting...