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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diabetes. Charts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that during 1923 and 1924 the death rates due to diabetes were 10% less than for 1922 when Drs. Banting and MacLeod discovered insulin and hailed it as a specific treatment, although no sure cure, for diabetes. Since 1924 the diabetes death rate has, increased rapidly. No doctor knows...
...recent statement of mine before the American Philosophical Society. Perhaps you would wish to correct it. What I really said was this: "In the face of great apparent prosperity, higher education in this country ... is gravely menaced by the difficulty?approaching impossibility?of recruiting an adequate amount of first rate intellectual ability to carry forward this great enterprise." I am sure you will agree that you attribute a very different statement to me. JAMES R. ANGELL...
TIME quoted Dr. Angell indirectly as follows: Menace, Higher education is now gravely menaced because it is almost impossible to recruit men of first-rate intellectual ability for college faculties.?Dr. James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University.?ED. Dr. Gehring's Sanitorium...
...less Dr. Schacht brought about the crash, He called the leading German banking representatives into his office and informed them quietly that they had lent too much money to speculative market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums at the disposal of individuals desiring to borrow for productive enterprise. Therefore, Dr. Schacht informed...
...rate, said the publicity matter...