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...friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas was called to the White House. When the President left town without making any appointments, the Douglas trial-balloon was still...
Jealous as a hen with one chick is Grand Rapids of its furniture shows. Mad as a wet hen is Grand Rapids when Chicago's bigger furniture shows are compared to Grand Rapids'. Pointing out that at the Chicago Mart buyers can purchase anything from iron nails to beef on the hoof, Grand Rapidans boast that their Market sells only furniture...
...They thought it gave saliva. In 1783 an Irishman named Charles O'Brien died at the age of 22. He was 8 ft. 4 in. tall. A curious physician bought his body for $2,500, dissected the head, found a pituitary gland almost as big as a hen's egg. Modern endocrinologists regard it as the "master gland" of the body...
Last week New York City's hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia was belaboring the Nazis of Germany with his customary vigor-and so, less loudly and more indirectly, was handsome Anthony Eden, who had just arrived in the U. S. from England (see p. 9). Few days later another blast at Nazi and Fascist ideology came from a quarter which has hitherto been relatively silent-U. S. science...
...expressions of the nurses at Stillman Infirmary are perhaps the only feature of the current rule at the Hygiene Department on which your newspaper has not to my knowledge glowingly commented. There was a day, under the ancient regime, when a smile from Stillman nurse was rare as a hen's tooth, but happily those times are past...