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...John G. Trump, 28, an unobtrusive electrical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr, Richard Dresser, 43, an equally unobtrusive Boston Roentgenologist, will soon have in operation in Boston's Huntington Memorial Hospital a room-high electrostatic machine which will produce x-rays of 1,000,000-volt power, penetrating enough to reach any cancer within the human body. The principle of the machine is that of the 10,000,000-volt electrostatic generator which Engineer Trump's M. I. T. teacher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper...
...thereby fed them with a sense of self-importance instead of with bread. When Hitler left Geneva he aroused his people to unknown heights of excitement, and gave them that wonderful feeling of having told someone where to "get off". Mussolini is now playing that same old weather-beaten trump and hopes to reap the same reward...
...addition to being Alberta's unpredictable head man. Premier Aberhart is head of Calgary's Prophetic Bible Institute. Last fortnight he protested against being called a religious fanatic on the basis of an utterance made in 1917, when reporters understood him to say the Last Trump was at hand. "Let me say that Jesus is not coming in 1936 or 1937 or 1938 or 1939 or 1940 or 1941,:'' Premier Aberhart firmly told newshawks. "Have you got that clear? . . . Now listen carefully. Seven years before the coming of Christ, the raptures shall take place. This will...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
...first time in 86-year-old Prince Saionji's experience the Last of the Genro had made publicly ready to play a smashing trump and failed to get it down his sleeve. If the Fujiwara godling could not sit on Japan's lid last week, then who could...