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...Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks will not call a press conference until he can get off an optimistic statement," wrote Hearst's jocose Columnist George Dixon last week. "This has led the press to refer to his seminars as 'cheery outlooks.' " When newsmen gathered in Weeks's office later that morning, Weeks was still chuckling over Dixon's dig. As usual, the Secretary was also brimming with optimism. Said he: "I think the outlook is still cheery...
...brief and easy confirmation of my present statement that I was never a Fascist, you may refer to the New York Times of February 26, 1941, page 13, Column 1. Therein was reported a speech by then Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, calling me a fascist. The Times asked me for a reply, which I gave and which they published. In it, I said that President Roosevelt, and not I, was then America's Number 1 fascist...
...Although 85% of all ailments can be treated by a G.P., many hospitals regard the generalist as a sorting clerk whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps...
Adams House has been repeatedly characterized as the last green glow in the rapidly petrifying forest of gracious living. And those who so characterize it refer to some of these points...
...McCarthy was reminded, he said, "that America has always been blessed with great leaders in times of great trial." In the early days Washington rose from the ranks to lead the country in war and peace; in latter days "another great general" has come along. Said McCarthy: "I refer, of course, to General Douglas MacArthur...