Word: ments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago Undersecretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton, No. i man in the Hoover sub-Cabinet, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treat-ment of a nervous ailment. In January surgeons removed a tumor from his spine. Fortnight later a general toxemia developed. His right eye was cut out. A third operation opened his leg to relieve the infection. He failed to improve. One night last week, Secretary of State Stimson was informed that Mr. Cotton could not live much longer. He sped from Washington to Baltimore, spent a midnight half-hour at the bedside of his good...
Under the "present system" no white man can settle in Greenland or even land there without special permission from the Danish Government. Trade is a Govern-ment monopoly, Eskimos are benevolently encouraged not to become too civilized...
...last week declared he would run again for State Governor next election.* He had a radio station at Milford, Kan., from which he advertised himself and his medical ideas, most notably his goat-gland panacea. Kansas doctors got his medical license revoked. (He is appealing for re-instate-ment.) The Government forced him to sell his radio station, bought last week by an insurance company. (He quickly bought another in Mexico, which he will operate by remote control at Milford...
Even to Frenchmen who knew that commercial aviation means a long, long pull. Aeropostale's showing was disappointing. Its planes carried last year only 224,000 mile-tons of freight, one-fifth of capacity. In 1929 its total receipts were but $770,000. Undoubtedly the Govern-ment had hoped for better things...
...stockholders of the Bank of France had their annual meeting and heard a speech on this same subject from their Governor Clément Moret. Avoiding the subject of rising retail prices, Governor Moret admitted that the Bank of France was ready to lend from her overflowing vaults to any foreign country that offered the necessary guarantees. Said...