Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations on your selection "Man of the Year" [Haile Selassie]. To me, his treatment of the missionaries in his country proves his real character. . . . Long may your excellent publication continue to use such judgment...
William Joel Stone of Missouri, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: He saw that Wilson and Lansing were siding with Britain against Germany, fought hard to restore the balance of neutrality. When Secretary Lansing privately argued that loss of life (German submarines) merited more drastic treatment than loss of property (British blockade). Stone pointed out that German babies were dying because Britain would not allow the U. S. to send them condensed milk...
...This method of treatment has been outrageously exploited not only by the out-&-out charlatan but by the ignorant but nearly honest layman seeking to earn an income by giving irrigations for sundry diseases at so much per treatment. Finally, and most unfortunate of all, there are those within the ranks of the medical profession itself, usually self-styled 'gastro-enterologists,' who have fitted, out elaborate suites of offices with one or more 'colonic lavagatories...
...must confess to having succumbed to the temptation to purchase one such attractive machine. ... I soon found that the apparatus was in little demand and that the work could be done just as easily with 1) an ordinary treatment table, 2) a plain glass irrigation jar on a stand, 3) a rectal tube and a Y tube with two clamps, and 4) a large closed jar or an ordinary hopper to receive the return flow...
...plot, of course, is neither novel nor amazing, but it does provide a convenient framework for much villainy, horseback-riding, and signing. Unfortunately the songs, although pleasing, are not noteworthy. Miss Swarthout and for that matter, even John Boles deserves better treatment However, Miss Swarthout is thoroughly charming throughout whether singing or acting, and the movie seems to have recorded her voice with considerable fidelity. Charles Bedford as usual makes a disagreeable villain, and Willie Howard and Herb Williams carry off the straight comedy parts with a great mastery and gust...