Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother Joseph Dutton, 87, Trappist lay brother, Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt...
...except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would limit his disguises, make it impossible for him to wear part of his make-up in his mouth Last week Chaney was visiting a Manhattan hospital twice daily for throat treatment...
...taxi industry he had to keep vigorously alive Taxi Weekly's battle for limitation of cab licenses, for higher rates.* He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting elements in the city's cab business: the driver, the owner-driver, the fleet owner, the company operator...
Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady...
Interesting, also, was the question of the Royal Dutch quid pro quo. The Royal Dutch statement, said that it had contributed its "experience" and certain unspecified patents under its control. There had been no previous mention of Royal Dutch patents comparable to the hydrogenation treatment. Meanwhile, however, Royal Dutch emphatically denied any general alliance with Standard and I. G. F., insisted that the shared patent implied no lessening of competition, no understandings on the division of the world-petroleum trade...