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...Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
...task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...
...Watchdog. William Howard ("Admiral") Gardiner, president of the Navy League of America and volunteer watchdog of the U. S. fleet (TIME, May 12), took to the air with a radio appeal for the postponement until December. He spoke of "rising tides of doubt," insisted the country should have more time in which to digest the pact. Though he professed to be neutral on the treaty itself, Mr. Gardiner's position squared exactly with that of Senator Johnson. There was little doubt that at heart the Navy League would be pleased to see the whole London agreement go by the board...
...without difficulties did the management of the Brady estate by the Brady sons progress. In 1923 the Brady sisters, Mrs Francis Patrick Garvan, wife of onetime Alien Property Custodian Garvan, famed Watchdog of U. S. Chemical industry, Mrs James C. Farrell, and Mrs. Carl Tuck sued the two sons charging mismanagement and converting of funds to their own instead of the estate's use. The suit was finally dismissed...
...died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao. No a military watchdog, Weihaiwei has assumed new importance as an aircraft base, busies itself coaling Pacific warships in its beautiful harbor, welcomes ailing British sailors to its mild climate and excellent sanatorium...