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...Mayor of Eatonville he led a posse which captured a band of bank robbers. Dr. Bridge lined up the bandits, advised them to find some new line of work. Robbery, he said, was poor business. The American Medical Association, stanch foe of socialized medicine, does not consider contract practice unethical per se. Two years ago its Bureau of Medical Economics reviewed Dr. Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze...
...popularity, if nothing else, would put it through. Last week when the roll call was taken only 46 votes, 13 short of the necessary two-thirds majority, were cast for it. Of the 42 votes against it, 22 were cast by Democrats. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, a stanch Democrat, led the fight against the Administration...
Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...private corporation called the German News Bureau, was permitted to select as its head the man who has run T. U. since Hugenberg took it over in 1921, blond, heavyset, affable Otto Mejer. Chosen on his merits as a newsgathering executive, Herr Mejer is known to be a stanch Nationalist...
...food there is good not unnaturally, it is better than that in the dining halls. The appointments of the room are adequate, and it is sufficiently stanch to withstand the assaults of the bawdy crowd which sometimes overruns it. But the one feature of the place which distinguishes and crowns it is the service afforded by the attendants. These attendants have aroused the curiosity of all who meet them. They are not only courteous; they go out of their way to help their customers; they are always cheerful, in spite of the pressure which a hurried group puts often upon...