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...Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning." Now were administered three enormous slugs of statistical dope which sent spectators away in droves and made the patient feel that, before having its liver cut out, it was at least going to have its red corpuscles counted one by one. Daily newspapers continued to headline the whole affair as the great "Monopoly Investigation" but Senator O'Mahoney made every effort to have the performance accepted as what he really hoped it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dull but Important | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sugar High | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Martinet | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. 59, President and one-man top of modern Turkey; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Cartoonist E. C. Segar, who created the comic strip character, "Popeye the Sailor", was near death tonight as a result of a liver ailment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

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