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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only thing we ever got was a form letter with newspaper clipping attached from Mr. Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...duty to protect . . . the interests and culture of the working masses everywhere." For this big job, he announced, Russia has adequate funds. The Deputies cheered for many minutes after Commissar Zverev climaxed: "We stand for Peace, but we are ready to give blow for blow! If need be, the whole people stands behind the army and the Communist Party and our great leader Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Taxation Rationalized | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Last week a national commission that comes as close as any body to speaking for the nation's educators as a whole, formally condemned the 8-4 plan, recommended 6-4-4 as a design for U. S. public education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 6-4-4 Preferred | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...thus made obvious, Dr. Perry was not convinced that it was a case of cause and effect. Perhaps, he reasoned, the radiation first altered some factor in the diet, which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on Sex | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Canning Industry Board which was partially successful in pegging prices, but left a carryover of 5,000,000 cases. Last week the industry failed to accept Director Brock's plan for limiting the pack of this year's 250,000-ton crop. This meant that the whole crop would be dumped on the market, threatened growers with a $4,500,000 loss as prices cracked. Homer Cummings agreed to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lowest in 20 Years | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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