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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Louis Emmet Mahoney of Los Angeles prevents gas pains by giving patients all the food which they can comfortably eat right after their operations. His theory: "The human intestinal tract is a muscular tube, the mucous membrane of which secretes digestive ferments and the motility of which is largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Postoperative Gas | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

A long and unfinished chapter in the annals of the New Deal has been written around the character of J. Edward Jones, a Manhattan oil royalty dealer whom the Securities & Exchange Commission has been assiduously trying to put out of business for more than a year. Last month Oil Royalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Again, Jones | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

But a reader whose primary interests are character and narrative will find the book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/12/1936 | See Source »

Thirty-seven-year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoople v. Puffle | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Biography of the year, Ralph Barton Perry's The Thought and Character of William James, was the account by a Harvard Philosophy professor of Harvard's famed Psychology professor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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