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...quite difficult, the identification questions causing more trouble than usual. Such, names as Gates W. McGarrah, Amy Johnson, and "Enterprise", were wrongly identified by a majority of the contestants. In the second and more important section of the quiz, short essays between 250 and 600 words in length, the Wickersham Report, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Conflict between Mr. Hoover and Congress were the most popular of the subjects offered. In commenting on the contest, Mr. Wright said that the papers were of an unusually high standard and displayed evidence of intensive preparation on the part...
...liquor was nationally regulated, doctors have carped at the rules which limited them to 100 liquor prescriptions per 90 days and directed them to prescribe no more than one pint of "spirituous liquor'' or one quart of "vinous liquor" to a patient in any ten days. The Wickersham Commission recommended that those restrictions be abolished (TIME...
...Department of Justice and the Treasury Department were also courteous to Medicine during the 20 months the Wickersham Commission performed its research. Federal agents were cognizant of a familiar practice of certain doctors in every city. Many a doctor uses few or none of his liquor prescriptions for patients actually or nominally ill. But many a doctor has signed in blank the balance of his prescriptions, giving a fictitious patient's name. Many a doctor has vended such legalized prescriptions to druggists or bootleggers at from $1 to $1.50 per blank. On the authority of such falsified prescriptions tipplers...
Though Federal officials knew of this medical traffic, they refrained from annoying the profession while its demands for professional discretion were before the Wickersham Commission. Last summer only a few doctors were arrested for thus falsifying prescriptions. These arrests should have been a warning to the entire profession. As a warning they failed. So last week the hand of the law stretched out, slapped down in New York City. It caught: a rogue named Nathan Bernstein, in whose home were 1,432 prescriptions signed by 150 different physicians; a racketeer named Morris Sweetwood, who had 25 cases of whiskey...
...Association and that of New York State, they have been banned from the marble-and-brocade clubhouse of the exclusive Bar Association of New York City since the first woman lawyer appeared in New York 50 years ago. Last week eminent members of the organization, among them George Woodward Wickersham, tried to have the local Bar's bar lifted by an amendment to the Association's constitution. Reasons given for the proposal's defeat: 1) expense; 2) potential disgruntlement of the male majority...