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Sugar-coated Hearts. The heart itself is contained in a double sack, or pericardium. The inner sack fits snugly against the heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 1,500 Hearts | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

When you write, address and mail a letter to President Herbert Hoover, The White House, Washington, D. C. it goes, not to him, but to Ira Smith. Mr. Smith has a mustache. He sits at a big desk in the outer Executive offices. His title is White House mail clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

In Santos, Brazil fortnight ago 530,000 sacks of coffee were burned up to reduce the Brazilian surplus, relieve the market, up prices. At about the same time in Washington, James Eli Watson of Indiana. Republican floorleader of the Senate, was beseeching the Federal Farm Board to reduce the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Wheat Moratorium | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

"In the free port in the harbor, conveyor belts are sending thousands of sacks of wheat, grain from last year's bumper harvest, into the holds of British, Japanese, French, and Italian ships, from the huge elevators of the Soviet grain trust. Half a mile away men are falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

In this same emotionalized vein the concert proceeded through Russian church music and folk songs. The Cossacks sing either very loudly, with stunning effect, or softly with effect just as stunning. The voices have the mellifluous, full-throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like the Movies | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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