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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy's Janet. To the harried Mayor's support last week went his wife, Janet Allen Walker, plump, double-chinned & fun-loving. Unlike Alfred Emanuel Smith and his Katie, Jimmy Walker and his Janet are not inseparable companions and mates. Nevertheless, at her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she has been since December, Mrs. Walker made known that she was going back to New York? though she wasn't sure exactly when?"to stand by Jim and our guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Perpetually sunburned to the color of a mahogany deck, his whitish hair tossed back like spray from a speed-boat's bow, famed Boatbuilder Gar Wood of Detroit last week stepped into his 2,200 h. p. Miss America IX at Miami Beach. After running a mile up and down Biscayne Bay at an average speed of 101.154 m. p. h. he got out, remarking: ''Conditions are ideal. I can run faster than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Biscayne Bay | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade (Cont'd.) | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

March 19-21-Open tournament; at La Gorce Course, Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING: COMING | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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