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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elbow and into it worked a long, soft rubber probe through the circuitous passages to his heart. Then he walked to the hospital X-ray machine to prove his accomplishment. Similar stunts have often been performed on experimental animals. The therapeutical value of such practices is not yet known, but Dr. Forssmann thinks that such probing can introduce certain medicaments directly to the heart better than the blood will carry them there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine Notes, Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Chiang has put off his going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Geographical Reasons | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Thus did the men whose names are known strive mightily to alter a national psychology. Theirs in great part was the credit last week when on Thursday Oct. 31 U. S. Steel which the Tuesday before had closed at 174, closed at 193½, and Radio which had plunged to 38½ climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...feels and looks."); why George F. Baker summoned him five years later, to be vice president and director of the First National Bank, succeeding the same Davison; why J. P. Morgan gave him the banking accolade of a Morgan partnership in 1911. All his life, he has been a known quantity; his assets have been realizable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...denominations, 44 allow women to be ordained to the ministry. The better known : Christian Scientists, Congregationalists, Pillars of Fire, Friends, Primitive Methodists, Salvation Army, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Universalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastoresses? | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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