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...With part of his skull shot away, Agent Hollis died at the Emergency Hospital in Harrington.* In a hospital at Elgin, Agent Cowley refused an operation until he could assure his famed chief, Melvin Purvis, that his opponent had indeed been "Baby Face" Nelson. Few hours later Cowley, too, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...highly hazardous, than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow up the production of hormones by those glands? Dr. Hutton, who has cured inmates of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin of dementia praecox and melancholia by means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-rays for Diabetes | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

With that rebuke to the American Power Boat Association, Horace Elgin Dodge, automobile scion, last week clapped on his hat, stormed out of the organization's annual meeting. He demanded that his name and those of his boats, with the records they had hung up, be stricken from A. P. B. A.'s rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dodge Bolt | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...endocrines have an important influence over the mental as well as the physical state of the body. In the Elgin (Ill.) State Hospital for the Insane endocrine disorders have been found to be very numerous, and treatment of these disorders has restored a larger number of patients to an approximately normal state so that they were able to leave the institution than did any other procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1933 | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...July 30 and Public Service a $15,000,000 maturity, no difficulties are expected. Less prosperous in this group is Chicago Rapid Transit Co., formed in 1924. It operates Chicago's elevated railroads, rents its tracks to the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (North Shore Line) and the Chicago Aurora & Elgin (both Insull Companies). Last year C. R. T. lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shaken Empire | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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