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Reflecting the trial-&-error nature of their profession, doctors last week praised sky-high one new drug, damned another which until lately they had praised skyhigh, found a new use for a third...
Last week President Roosevelt came down from principle to practice on his social tax program. To his air-cooled White House office he called Chairman Robert L. Doughton, a potent handful of Ways & Means Committeemen and several tax experts to face with him the fact that sky-high rates on a few very rich men and a few very large estates would produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled...
Oldtime Nemo-lovers, however, will miss the gentle conception of Slumberland. Instead of giving Nemo's adventures the honest simplicity of a child's dreams, Winsor Jr. has compromised with the "Buck Rogers" school of Jules Verne adventure. Thus the new series has Nemo accidentally shot sky-high from a circus cannon, takes him toward "another planet" where propeller-driven men called "gyro-scouts" broadcast news of his approach from their radio helmets. Flip & Impie fly out to meet him in an airplane...
Another thing that's changed in Washington since the depression is that the nation's capital is now a booming, growing city. Its population having increased by approximately 20 per cent or 100,000, Congressmen are having difficulty in getting located. Rents are sky-high, and there aren't enough rooms to go 'round. Some prominent Washingtonians, as it is, are commuting daily between Alexandria and the District...
Appointed Brearley's headmistress in 1930 was Millicent Carey, onetime English professor and acting dean at Bryn Mawr. Young, personable, friendly, moderately progressive, Headmistress Carey increased her popularity with students in 1932 by marrying able Pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, sent it sky-high last year when she bore twin boys...