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...private medical schools have been studying how to avoid them. The late Dr. Hans Zinsscr, a well-known Harvard bacteriologist, offered one solution. He said that the cause of the trouble lay in bringing too many men together from all parts of the country too quickly. Trying to harden them up too fast somehow set loose a lot of respiratory germs that some of them were carrying, and soon the camp would be afflicted with a flare-up of infectious diseases. His remedy was obvious: mobilize the men gradually, under strict medical supervision...
...offer of $1,000,000, put up by Carnegie President Samuel Harden Church for the kidnapping of Adolf Hitler (TIME, May 13) by May 31, expired...
...SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH...
...morning last week the foregoing paragraph led the decorous letters column of the New York Times. Signer: Dr. Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The Times in its news columns further quoted 82-year-old Dr. Church to the effect that 1) he was not joking; 2) his plan had been seriously proed-&-conned for three months in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club (coal, steel millionaires); 3) the offer had the backing of 50 citizens who could and would put up the cash; 4) he thinks his plan can work; 5) his backers doubt...
Sixteen days after World War I began in 1914, Samuel Harden Church was called the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation (for denouncing Germany's "murder of civilization"). Previously he had worked his way up from messenger boy to vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, had long been doing good with Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie's money. He has crusaded for monetary inflation, against Prohibition, for President Roosevelt...