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...still another important aspect of the problem the four agreed, namely that the United States government has done very little constructive work on the food relief problem. Since they felt that the government is the only medium for a foolproof, efficient plan, they are anxious that Washington devote more attention to it than it has to date. Only government interest can put across what the speakers consider an important step toward winning continental sympathy for England and America, and building sound minds and bodies in the next generation...
...TIME'S reporter was there, he already knew Dorothy Lamour, and he claims he had no drinks. Far from being the "toughest audience" in the world, Hollywood's cinema people are among the tenderest. Living and working in a medium copiously suffused with sentimental hokum, it would be strange if they weren...
...years cash prizes have awaited the spiritualist medium who could produce any single phenomenon-spirit-writing on slates, voices from the beyond, table tippings, wax casts of ectoplasmic hands, etc., etc.-which could not be duplicated and explained by science or sleight of hand. Last week, to the standing offer of $10,000 made by the Universal Council for Psychic Research, the Scientific American added $5,000. Purpose: a renewed drive to expose a growing trade in ghostly fakery. As the world crisis gets worse, more & more fretful folk have fled to seance rooms, as they have also to astrologers...
Umpire of claims for the prize will be Joseph M. Dunninger, longtime investigator of alleged supernatural phenomena. Dunninger can tip tables, conjure up voices and ghosts, make casts of invisible hands, as well as the slickest mediums. But he claims no supernatural powers, relies only on his 25 years of practice in prestidigitation and his knowledge of science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message...
Under these circumstances TIME'S previous index, which for two years has measured the underlying soundness of business conditions through the medium of money and banking figures, has parted company with the major trend of business activity and become primarily a weekly warning of the reckoning which may follow the rearmament boom-an indication of the level of business which would be justified if economic factors again became the dominant influence on business. Meantime the important question of the hour is: how much is the U. S. industrial machine producing...