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...looked to four U. S. Senators-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone-and to many a plain citizen, like a plain road to peace. If it were true that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next one was to keep its trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE'S "Arms and the Men" (munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Road to Peace | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Front Man | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: On the Corso | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Epicaine is the name which Dr. Osborne gave the new composition which does all that cocaine or procaine together with epinephrine does. Chemically epicaine is alpha (3, 4-dihydroxyphenyl) beta (paraaminobenzoylbetadiethylaminoethanol) al-phaethanonehydrochloride. Dr. Osborne proved this strange substance's efficacy on the "frog's sciatic plexus . . . the cat's blood pressure, the uteri of the guinea pig and cat, the gut of the cat, rabbit and monkey, the excised frog's eye and the Pupil in the intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epicaine | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...mother "in great perplexity, saying that he was her husband, and that his grandfather his father, and his grandmother his mother." One boy said he had been a soldier who had died in the ''German War": up to the age of four "he used to play frog-leap and other peculiar games. He playfully walked in military fashion and gave cautions." Mr. Yeats-Brown revisited his old friends Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir JagadisBose, botanist famed for his experiments on the nervous systems of plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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