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...church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist. Having failed last year to kill a similar prophylaxis bill in its home State, Massachusetts, the Church had lobbied for the Senate amendment and sent its Washington one-man Committee on Publications, William G. Biederman, to the House subcommittee hearing last week to see that it stuck. Committeeman Biederman argued Christian Science's case on, broad Constitutional grounds while physicians and welfare workers simply held out for silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have the highest regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayer v. Prophylaxis | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen-heimer's chauffeur, sprawled in a pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman's face was a red smear of holes ind blood. Leaning over the table with one bullet in his belly, was the mussy, 33-year-old German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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