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...among the jobless and less and needy.* needy. Chief defender of the Senate bill throughout the long nerve-wracking debate was its author and sponsor. Senator Wagner. German-born, he had served as a Supreme Court justice in New York City where he knew by experience the ex tent of destitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Garner v. Wagner v. Hoover | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Inhaled Ions. Harvard's assistant professor of industrial hygiene Constantin Prodromes Yaglou is studying the effects of atmospheric electricity on health. The de pendence of gout and rheumatism, among other ailments, on weather conditions seem related to the electric charge, or ion con tent, of the air. In an empty, well-ventilated room the ionization is the same as outdoors, but falls off rapidly in crowded rooms. Dr. Lewis Richard Roller described a machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemical Engineers | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Earth." For John Ringling, sole survivor of Barnum & Bailey and the seven brothers Rüngeling of Baraboo, Wis., it was his 54th season of showmanship, which began with a pin-show in an Iowa barn and now undisputedly monopolizes U. S. circus entertainment. The monopoly consists of six big tent shows, four of which this year will carry Circus into all profitable corners of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...BEASTS, AUGMENTED BY YET OTHERS, WILL BE MASSED IN FORMIDABLE FORMATION, PRESENTING THE MOST IMPOSING ELEPHANTINE COLUMN OF ALL TIME") to the closing one ("HUGO ZACCHINI, THE HUMAN PROJECTILE, A LIVING PERSON SHOT HEADLONG THROUGH SPACE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE FROM THE MOUTH OF A MONSTER CANNON") 1932-5 biggest tent show is an exhibition of the glamour, fantasy, strength, skill, ingenuity and courage of animals high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Barnes. Throughout the spring and summer these four circuses will play an average of five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show in the large cities of the East and South, if the South is not too poor (last year the Big Tent was folded early in Atlanta). Sells-Floto further west, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Barnes in smaller cities and towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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