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...doctors, as a body, want modification of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 12), chiefly because they want no Governmental restrictions on their professional conduct. They disagree radically, however, on the merits of alcohol as a drug or tonic. Few alcohol proponents are as "sick and tired of all the bunk" on the subject as is Professor Clendening who Wants to be quoted "freely as saying that the best inherent qualities in any alcoholic drink are in whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5c Whiskey | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams shot him dead. Belgian authorities cleared Mate Adams. Last month, charged. with murder on the high seas, Mate Adams was freed by a Manhattan grand jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Absurd . . . just damn nonsense . . . preposterous ... a bluff . . . midsummer madness . . . damn foolishness . . . just so much bunk," were typical of the epithets which Southern newspapers, cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Cotton Crisis | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: On the High Seas | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hoover Dam Strike | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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