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...years ago Dr. James Ewing, generalissimo of the world's anti-cancer forces, recommended that six $10,000,000 institutions be erected in different parts of the U. S. to attack cancer on all its fronts. Mr. Donner and his advisers* do not entirely agree. None of his $2,000,000 may be spent for buildings. No one institution is to get more than 35% of the income. Not less than 35% of the income nor more than 50% must be spent outside of the U. S. Mr. Donner hopes ''that this policy . . . will result in more...
...much of a menagerie would a menu keep alive and healthy during an ocean voyage from Buenos Aires to York? Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, generalissimo of an animal-catching expedition to the Matto Grosso Jung Brazil (TIME, June 1 et seq.), found it sufficient for the following, which he landed safely in Manhattan last week
...school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
...fronts President Hoover's Committee on Unemployment Relief was busy last week. Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford was in the second week of his five-week campaign to raise funds locally for Unemployment relief. Meantime the committee's sub-committee on Employment Plans & Suggestions drafted a 6,000-word document telling the U. S. what it must do to lift itself out of the Depression...
When the National Petroleum Association* convened in Atlantic City last week one of the principal speakers was sharp-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, generalissimo of Cities Service Co. He scolded the oil industry for having branched into unrelated lines, said proper planning would have carried petroleum companies through the Depression. Some of his listeners marveled to hear such talk from Tycoon Doherty for if ever a company had diversified interests it is Cities Service Co. Besides being a complete oil organization, from gusher to fuel tank, it also controls natural and manufactured gas companies, power companies, street car lines...