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...promising at the moment and may prove to be the next step in the sulfonamide ladder." (Last week Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, top-flight sulfa specialist, announced that this drug will be on the market by early fall. Said he: "I have good reason to believe it will supplant all sulfa drugs now being used...
Sometimes Editor Wertenbaker seems to beat his breast a little too fiercely over the past sins of Yankee imperialism. But this is a question of emphasis. To critics who fear that the new doctrine of hemispheric solidarity may supplant the Monroe Doctrine, he gives a flat no. "What was done at the Havana conference . . . did not make the Monroe Doctrine multilateral. The Monroe Doctrine was, and is, a unilateral declaration of U. S. policy against Europe. . . . The new doctrine ... is multilateral and does two things...
...President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins. Ostensibly appointed to give the Fullermen the benefit of his observations in Britain, he is also Franklin Roosevelt's outward sign of the board's inward grace and potency. PPB will be no bull-session board, in time may well supplant OPM as No.11 planning agency, keeping OPM busy doing the tasks PPB lays...
Informed that Nazis have picked Vienna to supplant Paris as world's fashion centre, New York's style-minded Mayor Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia grinned: "I think that indicates that they expect to control everything, if they win. I would refer that matter to Senator Wheeler...
...title: Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. His job: to give the U. S. a better name than it had, south of the Rio Grande. That meant economic aid (to check Nazi penetration) and the active publicizing of the U. S. case (to supplant Nazi propaganda on the virtues of dictatorship...