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Chairman Fess traced national economic ills to the War, felt that people would come to respect "the remarkable efforts of our great President" to get the nation out of Depression, was sure that he would be "unanimously nominated, overwhelmingly elected," warned against unscrupulous politicians offering "quack remedies...
Also "a portly looking matron from whose well upholstered bosom protrudes at frequent intervals the inquiring head of a yellow-billed duck that . . . utters a contemptuous 'quack' and disappears...
President Hoover, however, did consent to encourage Norman Baker, a cancer doctor of Muscatine, Iowa, who has been branded a quack by the American Medical Association. Recently Dr. Baker started a newspaper to air his opinions. Science's anonymous contributor quoted an editorial printed this month in the A. M. A. Journal: "By some of the strange influences known only to politicians, President Hoover was induced to apply to a pushbutton in Washington the presidential digit, thereby giving to the presses in Muscatine the electrical juice necessary to induce motion, whereby inked rollers applied to paper aided still further...
...enough hysteria on the subject. Clarence Cook Little, who since his resignation as University of Michigan's president directs both the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (heredity & cancer) at Bar Harbor, Me., and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remarks in Cancer: "By the publication of quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands and tens of thousands of people. . . . The better journals are not so much to blame...
...might solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...