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...increase is not strong enough. Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude Shaeffer Beck invented a powder operation (using ground-up beef bone or asbestos instead of talc), then put it aside in favor of a more radical job-revamping the heart's plumbing system by an arterial graft (TIME, June...
...eight months American statesmen have devoted the better part of their time and energies to getting themselves reelected. Aspiring politicians zealously tried to prove their opponents were menaeen in whom lechery, dishonesty, opportunism, and graft were compounded...
...collector's office; 2) cutting up big estates for homesteaders, and production credits for small farmers; 3) encouragement for new industries; 4) two-year emergency tax of 25% on imports; 5) encouragement for trade unions; 6) higher civil service salaries, to reduce the temptation of graft; 7) U.S. to grant a $250 million loan, "strictly conditioned...
...slate. While Dever may have been a success as a governor, his lieutenants, for whom he is responsible, have not done so well. Francis E. Kelly, his attorney general who is running for re-election, has been accused of bungling his investigations particularly the Brinks case and of allowing graft. When the lone Republican member of the Metropolitan District Commission requested a look into the Commission's files last month, the four Democratic members refused. The Republicans went to the Supreme Court and received permission. But the Democrats used a legal technicality to withhold action until after the election, neither...
Meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to answer charges of graft and waste in the Dever administration. Republicans are pointing to the enormous construction program in a time of inflation, closed bidding on state contracts, and incumbent Attorney General Kelly's "improper" handling of damage suits against the M.T.A. Political Lineup REPUBLICANS Arthur W. Coolidge LL.B. '06 For Governor Laurence Curtis '16 For Lieut. Governor Frederick Ayer, Jr. '37 For Attorney General Copley Amory, Jr. '12 For State Senator this district W. Donnison Swan '17 For State Representative this district A. John Serino For State Representative this district Francis W. Lindstrom...