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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges, said: "If other pilots on this field, namely such as Clagett, were given more than a cursory examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY 6? NAVY: Eyesight | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attaché. "This is your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jumping Jacks | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...grow from diseases of its blood vessels. "In the young patient, therefore, local infection predominates, and the resulting disease is fundamentally suppurative, with perforation and abscess formation the usual sequelae." This is easy for the surgeon to clean up. Children and infants present difficulties because they cannot explain their com plaints and because parents too often give destructive cathartics. As people grow older, progressively smaller is the likelihood of their developing appendicitis. In their appendicitis, however, "suppuration is the exception rather than the rule, and the primary pathologic change tends to be a massive variety of gangrene, a true tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sterilization in Michigan | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...many such organizations which sprang up during the 18th and 19th Centuries the most famed were the Oneida and Shaker com munities (New York), New Harmony (Indiana), Amana (Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baby Lama | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Chicago Grand Opera Company was born. George Lytton, who died fortnight ago of heart trouble (TIME. Dec. 18), and Banker George Woodruff did the figuring. A five-week season, they decided, could be put on for a little less than $150,000, approximately a third of the Insull com pany's annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Ballet Russe | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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