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...Bolshevism Run Mad," Bitterest in the fight was Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who has "retired from the House of Commons," was not campaigning last week, but poured the bile and venom of his scorn gratuitously on the head of his former friend & colleague Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, now leader of the Labor Party...
...world has been afforded the spectacle for some time past of war being manufactured. It now has been launched so far as Japan is concerned, but China has no intention of being an armed party to it." From Paris the Journal des Débats sniffed in scorn...
Meanwhile the Federal Government did not raise a finger against the Murray order in Oklahoma, but, instead, pointed one of scorn and reproach at Texas and its unregulated oil production. The new East Texas field was bringing in close to 600.000 bbl. per day. Operators there were selling their product at 10? and 15? per bbl., so low that Oklahoma refiners could buy and transport it to their plants at less than the local price (50?) which Governor Murray's order was designed to double. Declared Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon...
...preserve French military supremacy. Had France overstepped the mark by demanding, as the price of a further loan, political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet could accept and remain in power? The world press seemed definitely anti-French last week. French editors received a little of the scorn they have heaped on the U. S. these many years, and it stung. Swarthy Premier Pierre Laval, the butcher's son who gave up extreme Socialism to be a disciple of Tardieu and Briand, complained...
...foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure. The scolding which Harvard's George Richards Minot gave lazy physicians because they think liver extracts will cure every kind of anemia. The scorn with which Arthur Joseph Cramp of Chicago flayed sellers and buyers of patent medicines. The plan of Theodore Louis Squier of Milwaukee's A. 0. Smith Corp. (FORTUNE, Nov. 1930) to preserve the life-long medical record of every person in a community. The criticism by Harrison H. Shoulders...