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Home from the International Cancer Congress in Madrid Dr. James Ewing, director of cancer research at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital and foremost U. S. cancer authority, found cancer patients and physicians still in a hubbub over the Press's garbling of a paper he had read to the Congress. In an effort to erase from public memory such headlines as CANCER CURE AIM IS CALLED ABSURD and SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER, Dr. Ewing last week issued a statement on cancer for laymen. Excerpts...
Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...
Next day newspapers splashed across their front pages the ostensible reason for all the hubbub. On May 1 (May Day), near the centre of the Fresco had appeared a small head of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s son Nelson had asked Rivera ''to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." Rivera had countered by offering to balance Lenin with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The Rockefellers exploded, fired Rivera...
Eager to oblige his military self, Statesman von Schleicher dug up the so-called "Geneva Declaration." This was signed and forgotten last month amid Europe's hubbub about War debts. The signatories were trying to adjourn Geneva's abortive Disarmament Conference with some show of accomplishment. Among other vague pledges (TIME, Dec. 19) Britain, France, Italy pledged that the Conference, when and if it reconvenes this year, shall strive to obtain for Germany and other powers "equality of rights in a system which would provide security for all nations...
...When the hubbub had died down, and as the session neared its close, President "Uncle Arthur" Henderson beamingly voiced his hope that all delegations would speedily "report" on the Hoover proposal to the Conference...