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...mostly it is made up of people like the Hiram Dales ("There are scores of people who have pinched more pennies in Emporia than the Dales"), Dan Hirschler, Belle Harris, Cass Friedburg, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, people who become presidents, people who graduate from high school, give a concert, get married, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, or just move from one house to another. And with all its injustices and monumental blunders, it has been flowering-"In my lifetime I saw unfolding before me the magnificent vision that humanity had been gestating since man came out of the forests...
...opponent, Candidate Willkie kept silent. Blasted Cary Hardee: "We will hear much in this campaign from the 'pie counter' crowd about how the rank and file of a great people drafted Mr. Roosevelt. Will the people be fooled by it?" But when aging (73) isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson denounced the President for calling him no longer liberal, the Republican nominee chimed in. Observed he: "I would be delighted if a great progressive like Hiram Johnson was in my corner...
...left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent by U. S. Army Surgeon Hiram Winnett Orr, now of Lincoln, Neb., who contributed a preface to Dr. Trueta's book, Treatment of War Wounds And Fractures (Hoeber...
...like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Within three days, Eugene's fits stopped...
...Kentucky's leathery Representative Andrew May, chairman, House Military Affairs Committee, called for repeal of the hitherto inviolable Johnson Act, banning all U. S. loans and credits to any defaulting debtor nation which blocks loans to the Allies. The Act's author, old World War I Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, cried indignantly ". . . road to war." > What stand, if any, should...