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...Journal, observed that the average doctor frequently faces the problem, that when it is a matter between him and his patient he may generally decide it in his own way without interference. The Rockefeller Institute's famed Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel declared that sentimental prejudice should not obstruct the quiet and painless disposition of incurables, criminals, hopeless lunatics...
Having quit the League of Nations two years ago, Japan was ready for anything. Said canny Foreign Office Spokesman Eiji Amau last week, "Japan will not obstruct the League of Nations. . . . Our attitude toward sanctions will be decided by Japan's interests and her policy as a whole...
...subject to removal with every change of Cabinet. Last week the long, lean Viscount sat toying with a rolled up copy of the bill and faintly smiling, while the short, fat Baron accused him broadly of a maneuver to rig the judiciary and more precisely of specific machinations to obstruct the seniority rights of Lord Justice Slesser ("Slosher"), a rabid Socialist...
...seizing Peiping. The new tariffs upped rates sharply against the leading exports to China from the U. S., Britain and Russia, at the same time cutting rates on the chief exports to China from Japan. To keep all this as quiet as possible, Chinese censors were ordered to obstruct and discourage white correspondents in their cabling of the story...
...board is empowered to prevent any person engaging in any unfair labor practice that burdens or affects commerce or obstructs the free flow of commerce or has led or tends to lead to a labor dispute that might burden or affect commerce or obstruct the free flow of commerce...