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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward, whether he had to wear clothes like that for every Cabinet meeting. It was told that as a child he loved his dog so deeply that he learned to bark and bury bones; that as an idealistic experimenter he had lost twelve pounds trying to live on a diet of corn; that he so disliked his big mahogany desk when he went to the Department of Agriculture that he worked on only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Memel technically went to the polls to elect deputies to its new Diet, but actually the German majority there was holding a plebiscite to return to the Reich. As in regular German elections, the opposition did not dare to campaign. The United Memel German Party won easily, claiming at least 26 of the 29 Diet seats. Said 50-year-old Horse Doctor Ernst Neumann, Führer of the Memel Germans: "We are still Lithuanian State citizens in name, but inwardly we no longer have any connection with Lithuania." Adolf Hitler did not think that last week was a propitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Hell Memel! | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Alexander found, Slavic brothers do not always agree. The Serbs, 6,500,000 strong, had always ruled, intended to continue to rule. The 4,000,000 hardworking, stubborn Croats, used to their own local Diet at Zagreb even under the Habsburgs, felt they were a repressed minority, agitated for local autonomy, civil rights, the secret ballot, constitutional reform. The Slovenes, 1,000,000 of them, clustered up near the old Austrian border, shrewdly bargained for political favors. Thrown in also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Trustee | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...There are some individuals who may accommodate themselves to a roughage-free diet without ill effect. There are others who develop colon stasis in various portions of the large bowel. And while a certain degree of colon stasis may be tolerated without ill effect, such individuals are liable to disturbances arising from the abnormal retention of fecal material in these portions of the bowel. There is no doubt as evidenced from practical experience that many such individuals who find themselves to have irregular and inadequate bowel movements can secure more regular and more satisfactory evacuations by the use of bran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bran Booster | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...reasons of medical ethics) questioned by Special Features Director James Vandiveer (himself an expectant father), KFI-KECA Editor Jose Rodriguez (father of three). On the first broadcast the interviewers asked about prenatal care, got straight medical advice on sterility, the best age for child bearing, paternal and maternal hygiene, diet during pregnancy, danger of miscarriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Not? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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