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...French, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, three years ago indicated their daring to make such tests. What results, if any, they had, so far they have kept secret. Nearly three years ago, also, Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland grafter, implanted human female sex organs in Nora, happy chimpanzee and artificially impregnated her. Nora apparently conceived. But no baby was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape Woman | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., Health Officer Charles V. Crafter mailed, to the parents of each & every newborn babe, a bib upon which was printed: 'I don't want to be sick. Do not kiss me." That was Officer Grafter's idea of one way to fight influenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: The Sold South | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Budapest the Hungarian Prime Minister and virtual dictator, Count Stephen Bethlen, was greeted when he entered the chamber last week by Opposition shouts of "grafter! . . . herder! . . . PIG!! . . . resign or we'll bring guns and use Skupshtina methods here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Throwback to Assassination? | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...apartment house and was arrested again. His employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess I'll have to rest for a spell," he whispered, "but . . . it's not the eggs and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jersey Giant | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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