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While H. R. 17054 was still before the Senate Finance Committee for perfunctory consideration, President Hoover did an extraordinary thing that foreshadowed his veto. He wrote an informal but public letter to Chairman Reed Smoot listing his objections to the bill, warning Congress that the bill would retard prosperity by placing an additional burden on the credit and business of the country...
...TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite...
GILBERT A. BROOKS Detroit, Mich. TIME will print no more letters on this subject unless it is taken up by Congress Best financial opinion is unanimous that to raise and pay to veterans $2,775,000,000 would retard, not hasten prosperity. Rather, let the people who now have the $2,775,000,000 spend it instead of hoarding.-ED. Byrd Brother 1. Lindbergh In-Law Sirs: "Ohio's Bulkley" does appear a strong prospect for the next Democratic Presidential nomination (TIME, Nov. 24), but even stronger looms Virginia's famed ex-Governor Harry Flood Byrd. No cigar...
...mergers pending an investigation of holding companies has never left committee, its influence has helped retard all consolidation moves. Last week the I.C.C took a step forward toward its own consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). It ordered Pennsylvania R. R. to get rid of its 48% stock ownership in Wabash R. R. and 30% stock ownership in Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads...
...Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...