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Primitive people from time immemorial have eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions...
...Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME, Oct. 8), broadcast a new issue to the Republic's voters by bitterly attacking the Communist-Socialist United Front which has steadfastly opposed his plans. He begged support for his governmental policies and Edouard Herriot's own big bourgeois Radical-Socialist group...
Last year Guy La Chambre was Under Secretary in Edouard Daladier's Ministry of War under Premier Sarraut. When Daladier moved up to Premier last January, he made his friend a full Minister of Mercantile Marine in that unlucky Cabinet of nonentities that sat white-faced in the Chamber of Deputies during the bloody riots of last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). M. La Chambre will never forget that night when the rioters howled "Assassins...
Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...
...boys to be good") had not appeased the catfight that broke out fortnight ago in his "Government of Appeasement" (TIME, July 30). "Liars! Forgers!" hissed ambitious Conservative Minister André Tardieu, charging the Radical Socialists with complicity in the Stavisky Scandal. "Liar! Cabinet-wrecker!" snarled Radical Socialist Minister Edouard Herriot. "Retract! Resign!" howled both...