Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subscriber McKee reconsider his decision. TIME, Feb. 1, was reporting the contents of 'Mental Healers, in which Stephen Zweig gives his account of Franz Anton Mesmer (mesmerism), Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...
Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests?the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis. Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1814) started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them...
...Judge Jarecki rules against us," mourned Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago last week, "we might have to close the City Hall...
...past mortgaged itself for 320 million dollars. Dec. 31 it was obligated to pay $11,312,928 on interest and principal. It lacked the money. It lacked cash to pay even school teachers, policemen, firemen, and other public servants. As a device to raise cash Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak with Board Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. tried to sell $36,000,000 of "tax anticipation warrants." Few investors bought. For a third of the district's real estate tax is delinquent already. Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor scoffed: "There just isn't any market, and there...
...Chicago Tribune appeared the following proclamation, typewritten over the signature of Mayor Anton J, Cermak...