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...some this looked as though the Prime Minister had got the King to hatch a scheme which might enable the Government to declare the Sovereign "incapacitated" should he seem about to do anything unconstitutional, but this will depend on how the measure is drafted as a bill, and His Majesty last week was clearly providing also for the case of his own sudden death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Majesty's Own Hand | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...attitude and interests is able to profit from a type of work which places a large degree of responsibility upon the student himself. This is perhaps the most important and also the most difficult of all the problems involved, and upon its proper solution will depend the success or failure of any modifications that may have to be worked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Sees Tutorial Reform | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Townsend Test | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Having said so much, he proceeded to outline his idea of a reasonable settlement, including fair power rates to the public, a fair price to utilities for their properties if communities decide on public ownership. "The large private power networks within TVA transmission range depend for operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Schism | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

After several days of profound insulin shocks, the patient is allowed to rest, free from insulin, for one to three days. Then he is put through a "polarization" or tapering off course of gradually diminishing doses of insulin. Summed up Dr. Sakel: "The results do not depend upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insulin for Insanity | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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