Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold clause" in domestic obligations, originated after the Civil War as a protection against "greenbackery," seemed legally impregnable, the very heart of the contract. Almost overnight President Roosevelt had swept it into the discard-and economic life went on about the same. Lawyers talked of taking a test case to the Supreme Court but admitted that their chief obstacle lay in proving that a bondholder had been actually damaged by being paid in paper money instead of in gold coin. Hoarders. Up last week also was the time limit set by President Roosevelt for hoarders to return to the Government...
...faculty of some medical school or to a commercial laboratory. One of the few cities with an official toxicologist is New York, which has Dr. Alexander Oscar Gettler, a hard-bitten professor who teaches chemistry at New York University when he is not sleuthing for the city with his test-tubes. Last week Dr. Gettler. taking with him a grim array of bones, knives, vials and photographs, went before the American Institute in Manhattan to deliver a public lecture on his specialty. He has shared in some 30,000 autopsies, "which gave me a training and experience unobtainable...
...death excited the nation (TIME. June 29. 1931, et seq.). died by drowning after she had been drugged with luminal and thrown from a boat, declared Dr. Gettler. A difference of saltiness between the bloods in the right and left cavities of her heart, ''the only positive test of death by submersion." showed that the young woman had actually died in that manner. Dr. Gettler established the blood-saltiness test for drowning by drowning dogs in salt and fresh waters. He found that, in drowning, water always gets into the lungs, then into the left cavities...
...small court room at Le Mars (pop.: 4,788) one afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to suspend farm mortgage foreclosures. One of the intruders arrogantly demanded to be heard. Judge Bradley silenced him. The crowd growled...
...this was shadow boxing. First actual test of Nazi strength in Austria was the municipal election last week in the Tyrol's ancient capital, Innsbruck. Because the distribution of voters in Innsbruck closely parallels their distribution in the nation, foreign correspondents have come to regard Innsbruck as Austria's Maine. Chancellor Dollfuss flew to Innsbruck to make speeches. Ninety percent of the electorate turned out to vote...