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...Winter remained long a prophet without honor in the profession. He lectured on the one tooth in America and England. He wrote a 835-page volume and made sound movies to show how the offending wisdom tooth can be quickly extracted without the usual danger of butchery. Once taken for a quack, so revolutionary was his discovery, he is now president of the American Dental Association, and owns the 1933 Newell Jenkins award for "outstanding contributions in dental science," for all of which Dr. Winter, likes wrestling, has been a persistent and wordy
Soapmaking seems to inspire active social thinking. The late Lord Leverhulme, founder of world-spraddling Lever Brothers (Lux, Lifebuoy), was Britain's famed high-wages-&-short-hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends...
Commercial Investment Trust made $16,279,000 in 1935 as against $11,643,000 in 1934. Last year this company financed the sale of more than 700,000 new and used cars, handled nearly a billion dollars worth of "receivables" of all kinds. In 1930 many a prophet predicted that bad times would kill installment buying, but C. I. T. flourished throughout Depression, last year cashed in on motor recovery...
...Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat, and the thing for us to do is to go ahead and forget it as a piece of silly nonsense. . . . The only thing you can do with an unchangeable sequence of causes and effects...
...time's verdict is indeed against the New Deal, historians years hence may point to Pundit Sullivan as an authentic prophet. But certainly those future historians, searching the pages of Our Times for the record of a U. S. era, will write Mark Sullivan down as one who knew and loved that time & country well...