Word: poincares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a man, including Raymond Poincaré, Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clémenceau, has suffered from enlargement of the prostate gland after middle age. The only known remedy is surgery. In rats prostatic hypertrophy can be produced by stimulating the pituitary gland to overactivity. Dr. McCullagh found that by feeding his inhibin to rats this pituitary hyperfunction could be prevented. He concluded that probably prostatic hypertrophy is caused by 1) breakdown of the testicular cells producing inhibin, the absence of which 2) causes pituitary overactivity, which in turn 3) stimulates the androtin-producing cells of the gonads to sufficient...
Married. Frederick Hudson Ecker. 64, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; and Ann Edith Stafford, daughter of Dr. Philip Daily de Boisboisel, Paris physician and cousin of France's onetime President Raymond Poincar...
...cheeriest French customs is that whenever the President goes off on an official visit he takes with him all kinds of costly and delightful presents. Just before the War, for example, Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little...
Since great Raymond Poincaré had already refused President Gaston Doumergue's request that he again take the helm, no candidate seemed outstanding. Chances were even that M. Tardieu might again succeed himself as Prime Minister, as he did when his first Cabinet fell (TIME, March...
Down with Poincaré and the Oil Kings...