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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great life if you don't weaken-and Al Smith is getting stronger every day. That man WORK has finished HOOVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Tammany giant whose "damp shirt sleeves" and proclivity for spittoons the engaging weekly "Time" has unworthily noticed. This New Yorker is Anteus at present, it is true, in the bosom of his native city, but when he is lifted high into the spotlight of national polemics, he must inevitably weaken, and leave for workaday Hoover, and agrarian Senator Curtis, only the Harvard supported competition of formidable Norman Thomas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO BUT HOOVER? | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

...Pasteur Institute, and Dr. G. Guerin, decided to reinforce this naturally acquired immunity. They reasoned that if each newborn child were inoculated with tubercle bacilli too weak to produce tuberculosis but strong enough to produce immunity, mortality would be immeasurably cut down. For many years they worked to weaken the little bugs and yet keep them alive. Of these they made a vaccine and inoculated cattle with great success (TIME, July 7, 1924). They made a vaccine for humans; sent it to the Pasteur Institute at Kindia on the coast of French West Africa. Here were man's nearest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis & Babies | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Beaver Man | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ronoto | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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