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Marmola: "A quack obesity cure of the thyroid type...
...them in their concerted attack against this measure. From appeals to the rights of man as stated in the Constitution to tearful notes to General Johnson claiming that such legislation would put almost a million men out of work, their speciousness saw no bounds. The harmonious swinishness of the quack doctors never saw better proof than their protest against legislation which should prove a blessing to the honest members of the drug trade...
...capitalism, to the business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods of handling the economic condition of our country, and we must adopt a new monetary system. But we must not be carried into unlimited inflation, and other unsafe or quack methods, by thoughtless excitement. The 'New Deal' offers us the necessary kind of monetary system, and the best possible solution to our present trouble. If we wish to save ourselves from a worse depression and from the terrors of uncontrolled inflation, we must get together behind the N.R.A. quickly,--within...
Just now Mr. Tugwell is under fire from another quarter--the group who are fighting the pure food and drug measure he and other college professors drafted and which Senator Copeland introduced. The opposition says there is plenty of law now to get after quack medicines and fraudulent advertising. It is therefore particularly interesting to see what the White House does about Mr. Tugwell's future relations with the agricultural department...
Cancer "Cures." Good news to enemies of quack cancer "cures" were two court actions last week. In St. Louis three years ago Mrs. G. W. Haggard discovered a pea-sized lump in her right breast. A surgeon advised an immediate operation. More attractive was the prospect held out by Drs. John E. and Edward C. Westaver, father & son, who promised a cure with their salves at $2 a treatment. After nine months in their care Mrs. Haggard died. In St. Louis medical experts testified that dallying with the worthless Westaver nostrums had cost her a chance of recovery through proper...