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Appointed by President Coolidge to the U. S. bench in 1925, he has shown inde pendence in his Prohibition decisions, dis agreed violently with Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's crusading activities. He won the cheers of Conservatives when he re fused to protect with an injunction radicals who were mutilating U. S. stamps with protests against marine intervention in Nicaragua...
Charging that Miss Mabel Brummitt, U. S. teacher, had insulted Filipinos by calling them "savages, imbeciles, simpering idiots, contemptible cads," 2,700 pupils of Manila North High School struck, demanded her dismissal...
...chiropractor should lay his hands. Exhorted Dr. Palmer, characteristically: "You want to step up your results. I know you do, and it's only right you should, and I am now making it possible to help you. Now I have 50 neuro-calometers up in my room, and Mabel is up there and is perfectly willing to take away from you?so long as those neuro-calometers last?150 simoleons [dollars] each, so that you can take those neuro-calometers home and begin to build up your business...
Thus strangely naiïve and careless of utterance were the chiropractors,* who, despite their 20,000 practitioners and legal permission to work in 36 states and the District of Columbia,* are confessedly degenerating before the hard onslaught of the American Medical Association. They permitted Mrs. Palmer, the Mabel of Mr. Palmer's speech, to tell an anecdote of a woman friend who, all panting and excited, came wailing to her: "Oh, my dear, I have had such a harrowing experience. I was dining with a very dear friend. After we got up she said, 'Oh, I feel sick...
...cards, have lost considerable ground. Basso Feodor Chaliapin no longer "sells." His last minimum fee of $3,500 was too high to permit managers making money. Other names which count for less in dollars and cents are the Singers Frieda Hempel, Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Louise Homer, Dusolina Giannini, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Louis Graveure, Pianist Josef Lhevinne, Violinist Mischa Elman. Violinist Jascha Heifetz had also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since his marriage to Cinemactress Florence Vidor his concert manner has warmed, his box-office value increased. Conversely, names which will be worth more...