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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1921 the Event Bureau of Venice, nearby beach resort, built a "Miracle City" for him. The Bureau had to make him quit at 8 o'clock every evening to give its other concessions a chance. One day in September he manipulated the limbs of a longtime rheumatic. Next day she died and John Cudney was arrested for manslaughter. When a jury acquitted him six months later he marched from the courtroom on a path of flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Immortality at Oroville | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's No. 1 secretary, invited the selectmen of the rambling town of Westport, Mass., to his summer cottage at Horseneck Beach. There Vacationist Howe told them that the President might select Westport for an experiment in repopulating abandoned New England farms with destitute farmers from other parts of the country. The selectmen were interested but not excited. "The idea has its faults and its advantages," observed the chairman tersely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...royal welcome. Its citizens were planning to put him up at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in the suite occupied three years ago by Siam's good King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni. There from his lanai (veranda) he could look out at the surfboarders and swimmers of Waikiki Beach. A hundred volunteer guides were eager to show him the huge fortifications on Diamond Head, the great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review of troops at the largest U. S. Army post (Schofield Barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Hoomalimali Party | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Frank Finley Merriam had stayed in Iowa where he was born 68 years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On the Embarcadero | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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