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...Chamberlain swung his Conservative M.P.s into line and downed a Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled as loudly as the Opposition in attacking the Air Ministry while it was under the ousted Viscount Swinton, Mr. Chamberlain last week had to threaten Conservative members with ostracism at election time in order to insure himself of a comfortable margin...
...Half of all automobile sales, new and old, are made on terms. The Big Four finance companies handle an easy 70% of the new-car business. Also in the field are some 500 independents. Most auto dealers are on contracts with the factories; the factories, complained the independents,* could threaten to cancel the contracts unless dealers had their installment paper financed through their affiliated finance companies...
...firmly convinced that as long as . . . [the manufacturers] . . . retain in the form of a contract the power to threaten, the power to cancel the automobile dealer out, just that long will these gentlemen force upon their automobile dealers unreasonable quantities of new cars...
...intrenched group controlling the policies of the American Medical Association. These policies are those which were adequate half a century ago, before the population had mushroomed and the physician in private practice could fulfill its needs. They have consistently opposed the development of systems of medical care which threaten to minimize the importance of the old doctor-patient relationship, but which would provide better care for a greater number. The comparatively high standards of health in our cities, with people working under poor industrial conditions, is evidence that institutionalized medicine is the best method of caring for them. Legislation which...
Other Sophomores threaten to rise to the level their classmates have attained. Mason Fernald, winner of the 110-yard high hurdles in the Oxford-Cambridge Meet, has not had the same success on the winter boards. Shields and Day, Yale Sophomores, have succeeded in dethroning Donovan and Watson of Dartmouth while Fernald has not fulfilled expectations by graduating to that rank. A slow starter, he may come into his own over the longer distance outdoors. Fred MacIsaac is another Sophomore who should strengthen Crimson track. In the B.A.A. Games he cleared 13 feet...