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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case is diagnosed in the first three days of the disease, before paralysis has set in, a cure is possible, according to Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock, in charge of the Commission's work. A serum has been produced, which, if administered in this early stage, has had considerable effect in checking the affliction, especially in the severe cases. One of the purposes of the Commission is to educate doctors to judge the case before the paralysis sets in, which was heretofore thought impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...article of the magazine TIME is a complete fabrication. You are authorized to describe it as a swindle. His Majesty has never put to me such a question as that set forth in the article; never has a conversation with him even touched on that theme. The article lies and deceives its readers with an obvious purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...glasses were set on the mantel with

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gridiron | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...last week was the indictment, by the Federal Grand Jury in Buffalo of 30 Canadian distillers and their agents, including Board-Chairman Harry C. Hatch of the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts distillery, Canada's largest. The offense charged: conspiracy-to-smuggle. The significance: none, unless Distiller Hatch & friends set foot in the U. S. Under the present treaty they cannot be extradited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Police Business | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Throughout Europe the dry aspect of the Hoover victory continues to set best minds powerfully a-pondering. Suspicions stir that U. S. post-War prosperity may be due in large measure to prohibition. Just now the golden fetish of "American Methods" has wondrous kudos on the Continent (see France "American Methods"). In London last week the World Prohibition Federation held a belated mass meeting "to celebrate the triumph of Prohibition in the American victory of Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dry World? | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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