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...Public Health Service statements regarding the prevalence of communicable diseases in the U. S. have recorded a notable increase of measles this year over last, viz...
...Political Monstrosities" Mr. Kent traces, with extraordinary insight and no mincing of words, the measures by which "cheap and shoddy fellows" viz. Huey Long, achieve real political power in a great state; how they work their publicity, and what can be done to stop them. The triple-screw steamturbined kingfish is shown up by a Voltaire come for judging. It is all "stagestuff," one knows already, but this article shows how it is staged and how received. The thick-skinned Longs and "Big Bill" Thompson are not able to differentiate between the kind of publicity they want when running...
Sirs: Permit me, as an Englishman, to reply to the letters regarding War Debts, in your issue of Aug. 22. My remarks have no application to the debts due other than by England to America. I know of only two methods of paying debts: viz. by gold or by goods (including services). The latter method has been extended by some of your correspondents to include land. England cannot pay in gold, because her gold supplies are negligible. Mr. Andrews accuses TIME, of saying that in 1931 Great Britain produced five-sevenths of the world's gold. TIME "said...
...physician's public service may be rewarded by glory (viz. Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to King George and the Prince of Wales), fun (viz. the late Brigadier-General Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's physician), power (viz. Surgeon William Schroeder Jr., head of New York City's Sanitary Commission, who orders Mayor James John Walker's frequent health excursions). Or, as Mayor Walker's brother Dr. William Henry Walker last week disclosed, a diligent doctor may derive more negotiable profit from his political contacts. During the past five years Dr. Walker has banked...
...railroads, where the division between operating and financial management is sharp, the president is almost always an oldtime railroad man?viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...