Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does...
...scientist's comment on longevity, tobacco and alcohol...
Like many other psychological religionists, devotees of the Mighty I AM Presence believe in self-improvement. Like Mormons, they abstain from alcohol, narcotics, tobacco. They also abjure onions and garlic, feeling that their odors are repugnant to the Ascended Masters to whom they pray. Furthermore, they do not keep pets in their houses. People who follow these precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Meeting in I AM reading rooms and auditoriums-of which there are five in California, two in Florida, others in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia-these Hundred Percenters pray together, believe their...
...Board of Education has had three presidents in 14 months. San Antonio teachers, whose pay was cut 38% in 1932, chafe under a six-hour-a-day grind in classes, monthly salaries of $75 to $160. One board president ordered teachers not to attend public dances or drink alcohol. School buildings are in disrepair. San Antonio high schools are in danger of being dropped from affiliation with the State Committee on Classified and Accredited Schools because of overcrowding. Last fall San Antonio's teachers threatened to strike, were dissuaded by stern warnings that teachers' unions were not wanted...
...swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts around their necks and liked our alcohol distilled from hair tonic or drained from Sterno. Our few healthy moments were spent at "Sunny Side...