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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures repaired to Washington, D. C., there to continue its hunt, started a fortnight ago in Chicago, (TIME, Oct. 27), for certain large rats smelled in the Republican Campaign by Third Party Candidate LaFollette. While in full cry, the rat-hunters nosed also at various non-Republican scents and holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rat Hunt | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...rat-hunters had been asked to sniff about for two Republican funds in addition to the regular Party budget ?one fund the care of bankers, the other of manufacturers and business men. Mr. Grundy vowed ignorance of such funds. So did the other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rat Hunt | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...ridden with a great weight of sleep, as one who has tasted mandragora, so that his eyes glue themselves together, and all his functions are dried up in drowsiness, the blood of a rat poured into his veins may avail to remove the curse and call back the soul into his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rat Blood | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

This is not a quotation from an archaic book on medicine. It is a theory put forward by Dr. W. H. Taliaferro of the University of Chicago, who has been experimenting with rat blood as a cure for sleeping sickness. "Rats are immune to sleeping sickness," says he. "There are evidences that they produce certain immune bodies in their blood which will have an important bearing on the eradication of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rat Blood | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...Prof. Carlson pointed out that Dr. Koppanyi has been on the research staff of his laboratory in the University of Chicago since January, and that such newspaper stories as have appeared have not been authorized either by Dr. Koppanyi or by the laboratory. Experiments have been made on spotted rats; and the transplanted eyes have undergone varying degrees of change from complete destruction to mere cloudiness of the tissues. Most of the cause for failure is believed to be secondary infection. In the most successful experiments, the transplanted eye appears normal in size; the cloudiness clears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye-Grafting | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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