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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memorize just the list of things he is directly or jointly responsible for: the regular military establishment (124,000 officers and men at more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 3 Man | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing, the messenger gibbered to the flashing-eyed king that his general and the general's staff had been boiled alive by the Nadir Khan in a huge, sizzling cauldron of vegetable oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: French-Fried General | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Indian editors, commenting on the ways of Afghans, noted that while boiling in oil is a venerable Asiatic tradition, dating from the wars of Alexander with the Persians, blowing prisoners to bloody fragments from a cannon is a British invention instituted as the official punishment for mutinous Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: French-Fried General | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Liver Oil in small doses is more salutary than in massive doses, which may even be harmful. Pure cod liver oil is better than emulsions. Irradiating oil with ultraviolet light helps its effect.?Sweden's Erik Agduhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Synthetic Milk. China's Ernest Tso ground up fresh water-soaked soy beans and mixed the pulp with cane sugar, corn or rice starch, cod liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride, cabbage water. This synthetic milk nourished Chinese infants as well as normal diet would have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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