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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took for granted that all knew how his father started the movement. Daniel David Palmer was a "magnetic healer" who "cured" by laying his hands on innocents. One day a deaf Negro janitor came to him. The deafness had developed when "something broke in his back." Healer Palmer found a protuberance on the Negro's spinal column. He placed the man prone on the floor and knuckled the spine. After the "adjustment" the Negro could again hear, whence a new therapeutic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Business, Dull for 20,000 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...days, while Mme Leontine gradually overcame her repulsion to the weapon, the Desotrats practiced marksmanship against the garden wall, M. Paul shouting encouragements: "Vas y! Go to it, Leontine! Tire encore!" Mme Leontine's mother, blind, partially deaf, quietly sat in her garden chair, listening to the popping of the pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vas y, Leontine! | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...temperature of slightly less than Zero Fahrenheit in the famine areas of Shantung, Shansi and other North China provinces last week killed some 15,000 starveling humans. The ears of the world are deaf to this particular need for charity because it has persisted for so long (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.). Even the Red Cross has ceased to give aid. Now and then it should be remembered that roughly 12,000,000 Chinese stomachs are suffering the gnawing pains of slow starvation. Use less to repeat that thousands of parents are eating their children when they can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Distressing Notes | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...wish you were not quite so deaf...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...when cannibals ate them. But at the Africa Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hulda Stumpf | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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