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...Bing-Bang." This was the machine that the New Deal, through Attorney General Cummings, dramatically turned loose on organized crime. In 1932 the Bureau had had the kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws...
...experience as an administrator, Dr. Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting...
...could have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school...
Elected. Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 33: trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. D. C.; for his research activities at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Manhattan (TIME, July...
...their collaboration Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh reported: "Changes in form and volume took place in the organs from day to day. Thyroid glands perfused with diluted serum were observed to decrease in size progressively. On the contrary, ovaries or thyroids perfused with a growth-promoting medium modified their form and grew rapidly. In five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such...