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...stockmarket did not heed the men who know most about the steel industry. In Manhattan the American Iron & Steel Institute held its annual meeting and tough Tom Girdler, head of Republic Steel -dressed up for the evening in a white tie and tails, as he handed over the presidency of the Institute to his successor, shrewd E. T. Weir, head of National Steel -said bitterly...
After these drastic criticisms, which were approved unanimously by the House, the committee urged the development of locally administered systems of medical care for the indigent, suggested that only States "in actual heed" be given Federal grants to help their indigents. Moreover, the Committee insisted that States give their "medical indigents" cash benefits to pay doctors' bills, and abandon the custom of paying doctors through relief agencies. This would preserve for physicians the privilege of adjusting the size of their bills...
...Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good students of Alfred Mahan believe...
...heed the lesson, my fellow Democrats! . . . The Doones [Republicans] are in the valley. I pray you, gentlemen, train your guns a little lower...
State medical societies paid particular attention to Section Four of the bill, which proposes that States use Federal grants "to provide medical care for low income groups." Since this proposal leaves the set-up of such medical care to individual States, and since State legislators will heed the recommendations of State medical societies, doctors last week began making up their minds on the vital question of compulsory health insurance...