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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There is no known drug or combination of drugs which will prevent or cure influenza." Thus downrightly did Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Department of Agriculture fortify his last week's attack against bad & misleading medical advertisements. With the spread of the influenza epidemic pernicious drug vendors cried new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bad Ads | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Campbell, no doctor, but a Louisville-trained lawyer who has been a Food & Drugs Act watchdog for the Department of Agriculture for more than 20 years, has been narrowly watching the dopesters' printed promises. They have been very cautious about putting unwarranted claims upon the labels of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bad Ads | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

At Washington, D. C., Guatemalan Minister Adrian Recinos predicted, "The revolt will be put down within 48 hours," but it wasn't. Officials of the U S. State Department envisioned the bare possibility of intervention "to protect American lives (700) and property ($60,515,000) in Guatemala."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Intervention? | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

The Virginia team of the 4-H Club won a judging contest. The 4-H Club ("head, heart, hands and health") is an organization of boys and girls fostered by the Department of Agriculture to encourage an interest in farm life. The judging contest is a contest in which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poultry Show | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

These two able-bodied men have clashed in what, if ever there was one, is a Battle of the Century. In the first two weeks, it has involved tycoons from coast to coast, quiet old estates, many a small John Stockholder, thousands of employes, Wall Street, La Salle Street, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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