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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Addressed a State American Legion convention at Wichita on Labor Day. declared: "I believe we can do much by intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the Spirit of America must be our main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPULICANS: The Landon Week | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

The U. S. has some 20,000 licensed optometrists. Of these less than 200 belong to the exclusive Academy, founded in 1919 by ten men. Election is by invitation and replacements are now made only when members die. The Academy prides itself on a membership more interested in science than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Business | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

At the American Pharmaceutical Association's convention in Dallas last week Dr. Paul Goedrich of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy described a new iodine-bile compound called iodocholeate. On the basis of 2,000 clinical tests, iodocholeate has been found to:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: lodocholeate | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

The market for platinum is controlled by the selling agencies of a few producers. The big producers in Canada, Colombia and South Africa sell directly to the trade and to jobbers through a handful of agents such as Johnson & Matthey of London and Charles Engelhard, head of Baker & Co. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Platinum Boom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Died. William Fairfield Whiting, 72 Holyoke, Mass. paper manufacturer, great friend and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of Commerce to Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Holyoke. At the 1920 Republican Convention Paperman Whiting voted Coolidge for President on all ten ballots, was instrumental in getting his friend the Vice-Presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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