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...focal point of all last week's top-hatted diplomatic activity was in Paris. There the nervous elbows of Ambassador Edge, smart advertising man who became U. S. Senator from New Jersey and married Maine's prettiest girl, fanned up and down more excitedly than ever. He had no more than delivered the Hoover proposal at the Quai d'Orsay than all France began to pout because of the notion that the U. S. President had neglected to conduct any preliminary discussions with her. Time and again, Ambassador Edge's motor hummed through the Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exquisite Sensation | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...June 1929, the Episcopal liberal weekly The Churchman published an attack on Tsar Hays, called him a "window-dresser," suggested that he was an "office-boy" rather than "tsar." Most pertinently, The Churchman made the assertion which has since been the focal point of attacks on Cinema Tsar Hays: that in effect, he acted as a smokescreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Federal Council v. Hays | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...between miners, idle and sullen, and guards, armed and tough, generated sparks of hostility. Company commissaries were raided for food. Empty mine cabins were burned. Company property was dynamited. Non-union miners on their way to work were fired upon. Finally a deputy sheriff was shot dead at Evarts, focal point of the discontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Black Mountain | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...were practically the same. Each device consisted of a vacuum tube which transformed telephone frequency into the high micro-ray frequency of 1,600,000,000 oscillations a second. Wires carried the oscillations to an antenna two centimetres (less than one inch) long. The antenna was fixed at the focal points of two curved reflectors which faced each other. One, facing in the direction messages were to be sent, was ten feet in diameter. The other suggested a motorcar headlight. The two reflectors concentrated the waves which the antenna emitted into a sharply defined beam. Two of these devices were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Micro Radio | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...into laboratory animals bring about serious infection in the vital organs. The first conclusion came from the laboratories of eminent dental investigators and was observed through an application of the biological principle called 'vital standing.' The second was discovered by medical pathologists in their search for the effects of focal infection a research carried on in various parts of the world, with especially distinctive work done in this country at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Dentistry Makes Strides in Study of Diseases Caused By Infected Teeth--Dental School Professor Writes of Work | 4/25/1930 | See Source »

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