Word: nostrums
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...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...
There was talk of declaring the oil industry a public utility but, while admitting that the idea had occurred to him, President Roosevelt indicated that he would first try a less earth-shaking method of regulation. Production control by interstate pacts, the industry's own nostrum now being advocated by Oklahoma's Governor Marland, seemed out as far as Washington was concerned. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing...
Vannay: "Whatever reduction in weight may follow the use of Vannay is due to one or both of two factors: First, the laxative action and, second, the requirement - common to practically every obesity-cure nostrum on the market-that the victim, in taking it, should diet...
...small amount of undergraduate humility should be a good nostrum for the literary aspirant. If the Mr. Wades of the college would content themselves with sober and constructive criticisms within their depth they would gain a great many ears which are now deaf to them. "The Saturday Review" would I am sure not only welcome but publish a sensible criticism of its policies. (Name withheld by request...
...Next day thousands of U. S. radio-listeners set their dials for Villa Acuna's station XER, got nothing but a hum from across the Rio Grande. Mexico had slapped an angry hand over the mouthpiece of "Dr." John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, onetime Milford, Kans. rejuvenator and nostrum seller...