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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A resolution was adopted urging that Federal authorities be consulted as to "whether there is any redress open in this situation through Federal action." The most conservative suggestion advocated the reduction of newsprint consumption. Shrewd Paul Block, chain publisher (Brooklyn, Newark, Pittsburgh. Toledo, Duluth), expressed his opinion that most U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulp Palaver | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Chief reason for Chase wishing to own American Express was that its business (done through 35 domestic, 65 foreign offices) amounted to international and interstate banking through the sale of money orders, drafts, travelers' checks, letters of credit, telegraphic and cable transfer of funds, collection of foreign bonds, coupons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Express Bank | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

There are two operative ways of reaching the prostate to remove the enlarged portions: 1) by opening through the perineum (crotch); 2) by cutting through the abdomen, between the navel and the joint of the pubic bones, and opening the bladder.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Its possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Said she pithily: "A car goes up slanting." In 1920, at 93, she had pneumonia and erysipelas, but pulled through. Her 100th birthday was triumphantly celebrated with a party in her honor, at which she said a lengthy grace in a firm loud voice, while 41 descendants bowed their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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