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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 30 years Bishop Rowe visited the U. S. only ten times, to lecture and raise money. Four times he refused bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mushing Bishop | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts was convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preachers Present | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

This week in Manhattan the committee issued a dismally illustrated "Preliminary Report." It was promptly denounced by Secretary Evan Just of the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Association as "damned blackmail." The report contains no harrowing Gauley Bridge tales of mass burials and walking skeletons. It offers only Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zinc Stink | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> The tiny silica or quartz particles which cause silicosis are about 3/25,000 of an inch in size. They irritate the lungs, cause formation of small, stony nodules, which bring about shortness of breath, a dry cough, pain in the chest. Silicosis alone is not serious, painful or disabling. Essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zinc Stink | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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