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...Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis to testify against two politicians who last spring attacked and beat him in a corridor of the State Capitol...
...Manila last week, U. S. High Commissioner Paul Yories McNutt, Indiana's onetime (1933-37) Governor, was busy being polite to polite Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During his five months' junket to the U. S. and Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
...keep up with that of the 32nd (see p. 18) was of course unthinkable, but no more unthinkable than that the former would give up without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want to extend heartfelt thanks for the way in which we were received at Manila. All the church bells rang...
Centre of last week's quake was located three miles from Manila's downtown district. Seismologists rated the force of the first tremor between five and six on the scale which measures the lightest shocks as one, heaviest on record as ten. In Cambridge, Mass, last week. Dr. Lewis Don Leet of Harvard first learned of the quake by telegraph...
...blood poisoning, it seems to have caused agranulocytosis (a dangerous deficiency of white blood cells). When a doctor must decide between blood poisoning which is killing his patient or the risk of causing agranulocytosis, however, the choice is simple. That Sulfanilamide is being abused, no doctor doubts. In Manila, men are using it instead of tried-&-true chemical or mechanical prophylactics against venereal disease, reverting to the traditional, false notion that an attack of gonorrhea is "no worse than a bad cold...