Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers whom he expects quickly to proselytize 2,000,000 more members. When the group totals 20,000,000, an international advertising campaign will quickly raise the total membership to 200,000,000 which I.I.U.R.A. needs before going into action. Tentative date for the start of the Millennium is Dec...
Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000. Last week a defaulter answered. Hungary announced that on Dec. 15 it would make a payment of $9,828.16, first by a defaulting nation* since Great Britain ceased its "token" payments in 1933. Hungary's payment, also a token, amounted to 22.8? per dollar on the semiannual payment...
Raymond Elaine Fosdick was elected president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the allied Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board two winters ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), took active charge in July of last year, replacing two retiring presidents, Trevor Arnett and Max Mason. For a quarter-century before that Fosdick had been active in Rockefeller philanthropy. War worker, peace advocate, internationalist, social science promoter, he was first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government won the right to reopen a claim involving $4,976,722 against Guaranty Trust Co. That sum was on deposit at the Guaranty Trust by the Russian Government Dec. 17, 1917. On Feb. 25, 1918 the bank closed the account, charging against it sums of money which were then due it from the Russian Government as successor to certain nationalized concerns which had been in debt to the bank. When, by the Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed...
Sulfanilamide, a dye introduced to U. S. pharmacologists last year under the trade names "Prontosil" and "Prontylin," has been found effective in blood poisoning, gonorrhea, childbed fever, erysipelas, cerebrospinal meningitis and other bacterial diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct...