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Backed by Pink Pills & Fruitatives, Father Arthur Hardy, already a social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Trouble & Tragedy | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Professor v. Spider | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...townspeople with one mind begin to fancy themselves as great tragic figures with a story. They begin to fumble artlessly with suicide, murder and passion in the tradition of the great dramatists. The actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...There have been charges in the English Press," he cried, "that Schering-Kahlbaum are a 'secret arsenal.' that we are making poison gas. Preposterous! I invite the Press to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hormone Judas | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...cried, "we are not making poison gas. What are we making? Well, for one thing Schering-Kahlbaum are spending millions of marks to isolate the male sex hormone. Two years ago I predicted that the Nazi Government would do much to restore the German people to their primitive vigor. Most emphatically I am today in the business not of killing men but of curing them. Our hormone experiments are designed to increase manly vigor and courage. Several Berlin policemen have volunteered as subjects and we are making progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hormone Judas | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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