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...many years the American Medical Association has labored to secure the passage of a law which would give the federal government the power to ban all advertising containing misleading or fallacious statements about food or drug products, and which could be invoked with telling effect against the vendors of quack medicines, beauty aids, and bogus aphrodisiacs...
...editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although...
...kindly but inefficient nuns. National medical journals, supplemented by the Spanish edition of the American Medical Association's Journal and by European journals, keep local practitioners in touch with current medical progress. The profession, however, does not seem sufficiently alert and disinterested to prevent the sale of quack cure-alls. Latin America is the patent medicine man's happiest hunting ground...
Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
...case of 24 2-oz. bottles, which contained altogether about $7 worth of radioactive material. Investigators last week sought to identify this William J. A. Bailey with the William J. Bailey whom a Chicago court fined 14 years ago for exploiting "Las-I-Go for Superb Manhood," a quack aphrodisiac...