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...effort of osteopaths' uphill struggle for respect of the nation and respect for themselves as professional men and women. Last week's convention in Manhattan was novel in its lack of brawling denunciation of Osteopathy's "enemies"-i. e., the medical profession. Osteopaths now frown on blatant advertising. They have a Bureau of Public Health & Education "to place some osteopathic literature in every public library, school library and newspaper library in America...
While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
...contrast with oldtime fiction operatives like Sherlock Holmes, whose deductive gifts were superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred...
Last week the "Big Five" U. S. airlines finally took off on an industrial flight which they had long feared the Government might frown upon (TIME, March 16). From the Air Transport Association of America's headquarters in Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
...Eden's frown and Flandin's cracking...