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...present, necromancy has scored over the public. The American Press, however jealous of constitutional encroachments on its liberty, stands strangely apathetic to the Common Weal when threatened with loss of fat advertising contracts. Over three months have elapsed without action on the Bill, and daily it sinks further into the background as other issues arise to command the attention of the administration. In another three months of carefully regulated silence the Tugwell-Copeland Bill, like so many other good but "inopportune" measures, will die amidst the rejoicing of the quacks and their advertising confreres...
Louis Edward Kirstein: A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal...
...tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their histamine. The histamine dilates the blood vessels in the neighborhood and at once initiates healing. To illustrate, Sir Henry scratched his hand with a fingernail, exhibited the red weal which quickly rose...
...developing intellectual power, means must be found for making these available primarily to those possessed of potential strength of character, of latent, if not active, attributes which make for personality, and of group consciousness which can dominate instinct for individual acquisitiveness at the expense, of the public weal. Likewise, credentials from our houses of learning ought to be withheld from those without evidence of interest in developing these qualities...
...project was announced to have the blessing of Dr. Hans Luther, president of the Reichsbank who has vetoed earlier make-work schemes on the ground that they would mean inflation. According to the Government's rather vague announcement, "assistance will be rendered only to undertakings for the common weal" by means of 20-year loans at 6% to municipalities, small businessmen, guilds and employers of hand labor generally. Large contractors, firms using labor-saving machinery and producers of luxuries will get no make-work loans...