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...Camden, N. J., Francis B. Weaver, president of the State Board of Tax Appeals, sought to demonstrate in court how his wife choked him by yanking his necktie. "Like this," he said. He jerked his tie tight, choked, sank gasping to the floor. Soon he was unconscious. An attorney cut the necktie, revived Francis B. Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Camden, N. J., when her husband threatened to kill her, resourceful Mrs. Paul Swicord leaped upon his lap, kissed him repeatedly until police came to her rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swordfish | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Camden the price was down to about 5? exclusive of taxes and motorists were madly storing fuel in tanks, cans, barrels, buckets, bottles. It was estimated that the oil companies were losing 3? to 4? on every gallon sold. Harry Ford Sinclair, who has felt the heavy hand of the Standard companies in his time, remarked: "It's not a price war; it's a war of annihilation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Annihilation | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Inventor Charles Jacob Young, shy son of famed Owen D., expounded his facsimile radio, lately come into practical use. It transmits carbon copies of almost anything through the air.* Young Mr. Young works for RCA-Victor of Camden, N. J., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, and although his father was until lately board chairman of the parent company, Son Charles is a self-made scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laytex After Lastex | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Camden, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Barnabie eyed malevolently the workmen who had come to replace the electric light pole on her front lawn, refused even to give her the old one for firewood. As soon as they had dug a clean new hole she plumped herself down, dangled her legs in the hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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