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Thomas Gooch Tickle, 44, is a slender, timid-looking Manhattan nerve surgeon. Joseph Albert Sullivan, 34, is a husky, combative Toronto surgeon. Several years ago they studied together in Manhattan under the late Surgeons Sir Charles Ballance and Arthur Baldwin Duel, both of whom died a few months ago. Surgeons Ballance and Duel taught the younger surgeons how to repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side...
...Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most of the agenda might have been phrases culled from Franklin Roosevelt's "non-political" campaign speeches: "The Public Regulation of Private Electric and Gas Utilities," "Organization, Financing and Operation of Publicly Owned Electric & Gas Utilities...
...same hotel. Along with other newspapermen I hoped for a meeting of the two candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring about a meeting with visions of posed photographs and a worthwhile national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself to be persuaded to accept an invitation from the President. If memory serves me correctly Billy Swan (yachting stories) then of the Associated Press made the contact with the President's party. Result: A cordial invitation from the genial Taft...
...addict, while most of the pleasure-seekers and boredom-avoiders go to pieces in unesthetic ways. Anthony turns into a preacher of positive pacifism, accepts William Penn's credo: "Force may subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that faith has made him courageous. "Meanwhile there are love and compassion. Constantly obstructed. But, oh, let them be made indefatigable, implacable to surmount all obstacles, the inner sloth, the distaste, the intellectual scorn; and, from without, the other's aversions and suspicions...
...skill of lawyers representing the borrower, the banker and the trustee (but never the investor) have reduced the duties of corporate trusteeship to a few clerical motions, the liabilities to virtually nothing. Moreover, SEC found that "subtle influences of friendship and business relations" tended to make the trustee "a timid and ineffectual representative of security holders...