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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balmy Portland, Ore., last week well entertained what at torrid Minneapolis last year its representatives had fought and bargained for, the 80th convention of the American Medical Association. Portland is an expensive journey from the populous midwest and eastern medical centres, so the convention was not so well attended as...
Outgoing President William Sydney Thayer, 65, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-taught Baltimore physician and poet, put a valedictory damnation on legislation which seeks to govern "what we may or may not eat or drink, as to how we may dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may...
In the darkness the audience grew impatient. Children squirmed and complained. Suddenly the building emitted jets and twists of flame, illumined the landscape. The effect was uncannily real. The crowd cheered and applauded. In an upper window the mock bride and groom looked funny as they gesticulated for help. The...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U...
Following Packard's Macauley came General Motors Sloan. Mr. Sloan appeared nervous, spoke quickly, tensely, used no notes. He endorsed the 10% position. He added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars...