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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...
Improvement in Privy-Seats "renders it impossible for the user to stand upon the privy-seat; and consists in the provision of rollers on the top of the seat, which, although affording a secure and convenient seat, yet, in the event of an attempt to stand upon them, will revolve, and precipitate the user on to the floor...
...exterminator which snapped a collar with bell attached on the rat; electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...
...best Lehmann is indisputably one of the world's few great singers. Her rich voice is always deeply moving. With Lieder her abundant temperament sometimes gets the best of her. Opera suits her better. In Tannhäuser her exuberant Elisabeth dominates the stage. In Die Meistersinger she becomes the youthful ingenuous heroine whom Wagner imagined. As Sieglinde in Die Walküre she has no living peer. Next month Manhattan's critics will have their first chance to pass on her Tosca...
...foundation for these suits had been provided by the U. S. Supreme Court fortnight ago when it refused to review a lower court ruling and thus, in effect, sustained Mr. Fox's claim that every user of R. C. A. Photophone and Western Electric sound-equipment was infringing on patents owned by his personal holding company (TIME, Oct. 22). Estimates of the extent to which sanguine Mr. Fox thought he was damaged ranged around $100,000,000. With Mr. Fox out in the open and trying to stage a mighty comeback, spokesmen for the film industry hastened to point...