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Also called to order at noon, 88 Senators answered their roll. At 1:20 the Senators, led by Vice President Garner, marched out of their chamber two-by-two, passed down the Capitol's central corridor. In front of the main door of the House, the procession came to a halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 73rd Sits | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...justice of the peace permitted Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist, to perform the blood test. This test is the issue of the blood classifications which Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute discovered when he was a young researcher in Vienna 30 years ago. There are four main classes of human blood (O, A, B and AB). If, for example, a woman whose blood was of type A had a child by a man of type A, the child's blood would be type A or O and could not be type B or AB. This meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Judgment by Blood | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...still worth so many hundred millions that a regiment of unemployed accountants would find work figuring out how many. William : a petitioner in bankruptcy ; the liabilities of his company $412,900; its assets, none; his own assets, the red brick house he lives in near Dearborn's Main Street, a few shares of stock (which he offers to pledge to meet the claims of creditors), real estate in Livingston County, Mich., not one automobile. Detroiters who made this comparison did not find it odious, either to William or to Henry. They knew that Depression had been too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Comparison | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Most sacred stewardship of any Congress, and especially the 73rd Congress is the country's Money. "Taxation without representation" was the cause of the above scene-the Ways & Means Committee (part of it) holding a hearing in Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 73rd Congress: THE BIG COMMITTEE | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Individuality will be the main factor in inter-House debating, according to Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, who spoke at a meeting of the Debating Council yesterday, held to formulate plans for the coming inter-House season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 1/10/1934 | See Source »

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