"Professor Hallberg was a rough diamond, but a real diamond. His language was strong and Incisive, his manners not always those of a polished orator, but his principles were never tainted by wrong."1 Thus Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture (now Food and Drug Administration), characterized his fellow crusader for standards. Blunt, argumentative, out of sync with the times, belligerent, and uncouth were less than flattering descriptors of Carl S.N. Hallberg; simultaneously he was described as an aggressive defender of pharmacy, fearless, a brilliant teacher, humorous, and greatly beloved. This rotund Swedish immigrant was all of these and more; he was a practitioner, manufacturer, association activist, editor, and educator.
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