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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
...Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
...Street brokerage house: "Preferred stockholders get nothing in return for their sacrifices; common stockholders make no sacrifices in return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no less potent stockholder could afford. He sent out far & wide among preferred stockholders, lined up opposition votes as far afield as the Midwest. Many another big insurance company, holder of Curtis preferred, girded...
...every way possible the men and the problems he faced from week to week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week in Washington to the end. His extended portrait of Charles Sumner...
...people, the masses, nameless and anonymous numbers of persons not listed nor published among those present-these redeemed...