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Aimed at the whole precept-and-practice of the British medical profession, The, Citadel is a brilliantly bitter attack by a man in dead earnest. Says Author Cronin: The small-town English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing...
...precept which black, benign Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist, enjoins upon his followers is that all stolen goods should be returned to their rightful owners, all old debts be paid to creditors. Since Father Divine attained a following many a U. S. merchant, especially in the South, has testified that many a black man's long-forgotten debt has indeed been liquidated. In Harlem last week one Famaca Real, a Divine follower, took pen & paper, laboriously composed a letter. She had once purchased goods on credit in Pittsfield, Mass., could no longer recall the merchant's name...
Economy? Would history be paved with good intentions of the 75th Congress? Congressmen felt twinges of fiscal uncertainty in their joints. They could see that the President's example was not so strong as his precept. Although urging them to economize and promising "to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year," he did not reduce his own net aggregate of Budget requests. The expected $418,000,000 deficit of fiscal 1938 was accounted for by a reduction of $387,000,000 in revenues and an increase...
...conception of the ideal relationship between man and his environment no less than that of the environment itself, has been in a state of flux. Now however, the great increase of knowledge of the pathology of the mind has made possible individual prescription as well as the general precept. Research is being made into all the complexities of men as a social animal, notably at the Yale Institute of Human Relations...
Over luncheon trays at the White House fortnight ago President Roosevelt listened to Walter P. Chrysler expound the theory of more jobs, better ways of mass production, a theory which the President had disavowed in his Jefferson Day speech. Last week Chrysler Corp. reinforced its founder's precept with examples by announcing a 5% wage increase for all Chrysler workers. Pointedly President Kaufman Thuma Keller hinted that in the case of Chrysler employes, at least, the benefits of mass production had not reduced their purchasing power. In the last three years Chrysler has boosted wages three times, beginning with...