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Illinois a fortnight ago responded to the anti-syphilis drive by forbidding marriage unless both the man and the woman produced a doctor's certificate that they were free from both syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, July 12). Several other States have bills of the same purport in their legislatures. Last week the young editors of the genteel Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Gould, published a syphilis article by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Parran...
...identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations being outrageously untrue, libelous and incendiary, the White House did not wish to dignify them by denial but put the case of the McClure Syndicate up to the Washington news fraternity to deal with in its own way, for its own honor...
There can be no doubt, and there is no doubt in the minds of the country, that the real purport of the message Friday is not judicial reform but the abolition of judicial interference with New Deal measures by packing the court. For some this is the final unforgivable sin, the long-feared crime, marking the climax of an unsavory career. For others, who sympathize with such New Deal aims as social security, minimum wage laws, or conservative measures, the new proposal creates an embarrassing and highly unpleasant dilemma. The ends meet with nothing but approval; but the suggestion...
...sideline to the numbers game has grown up in dream books, which purport to key nightmares to likely digits. The New York Daily Mirror, which is widely read by devotees of the game, has a regular feature cartoon entitled "Pete,'' familiarly known as "Policy Pete." Pete and his friend say nothing about numbers, but innocently and irrelevantly included in the cartoon are two numbers, presumably suggestions for the day's play. Colored pastors often note with regret that after a hymn is announced there is a rustle in the congregation as the number of the hymn...
...submit that regulation of the personnel and practices of protective committees in connection with municipal debt readjustments is absolutely essential. This conclusion is amply supported by the many instances cited of committees whose members have interests adverse to those of the investors whom they purport to represent; of committees whose mode of organization and subsequent activities are calculated to discourage the investigation and prosecution of possible causes of action in favor of bondholders or of the debtor; of committees which have profited extensively from their trust by voting themselves payments for expenses, compensation and otherwise; of committees which have distributed...