Word: sopers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vexed many physicians by advocating a cancer-cure nostrum of one Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit. Dr. Field's advocacy was the more dangerous because of the wide press publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, emeritus professor...
Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer (370 Seventh Ave., New York City; Dr. Howard C. Taylor, president; Dr. George A. Soper, managing director) girded itself for renewed educational propaganda. Last year it spent about $60,000 on its work. A fortnight ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it $135,000. But it needs $1,000,000 as an endowment fund. This it will...
Prof. Wood's Report. Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer met in Manhattan; heard its Managing Director, Dr. George A. Soper, report on European activities against cancer; heard too Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research, report on most recent remedial research...
...Institute Curie in Paris is treating various types of cancer with highly filtered radium and X-rays. He gives small doses of radium over a long period, as against the German method of one large destructive dose. In Dr. Wood's judgment the French method is preferable. Dr. Soper's Report. Dr. George A. Soper traveled extensively over Europe; found cancer as prevalent there as in the U. S., or more so; praised the preparations being made there for a long campaign against the disease. The League of Nations has a committee comparing statistics of one nation with...
...Independent of the verdict, the opinion of Judge Soper to the effect that fruit juices and cider made in the home for use there must be intoxicating in fact and are not limited to ½% alcoholic content, fixed by other sections of the act to regulate other beverages, is of the utmost importance...