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...feel the need for national issues to campaign on, came their leaders with help. Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. of the Republican Congressional Committee announced an official slogan: "Let's put America back to work!" Senate Minority Leader McNary and House Minority Leader Snell issued a semi-official nine-point platform. The Republican pledges for any campaigners who feel the need of them...
...June 21). The remedy, according to Dr. Cabot & friends: Let the Government pay school and hospital deficits, provide medical care for the indigent. The A. M. A.'s Journal scolded: "Lamentable!" By last week 430 noted U. S. physicians and surgeons had plumped for this program, signed a nine-point manifesto embodying such reforms...
...President then invited his Republican predecessor's Secretary of the Treasury to call on him to discuss details of the transfer. Mr. Mellon did so, leaving behind a nine-point program for running the gallery, most emphatic of which was that "no acquisitions shall be made . . . except objects of a similar high standard of quality to the present collection...
...cogitation by sober-sided Publisher Harry Chandler and Gilbert P. Farrar, type consultant for American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads were short, simple sentences split up into two or three lines. New body type was eight-point Paragon on nine-point base, a light, readable letter with plenty of space between the lines...
Discussing a nine-point program proposed to prevent high-school injuries, Mr. Bingham asserted that the present position of the goal-posts was satisfactory, and there was no indication of the so-called "slow-whistle" among officials...