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Professor Hansen claimed that an outlet must be found for the nation's savings in expansion add new construction to avoid chronic unemployment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Hansen Urges Government Taxes On Savings | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave Victory | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

This statement without explanation tends to be misleading. Experimental studies indicate that chronic irritation alone does not cause cancer, but that chronic irritation plus some other factor in the body may cause cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...million persons in the U. S. who suffer from hay fever, asthma and assorted allergies, came welcome news last week as two researchers offered promising clues to the treatment of these chronic ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Asthma Clues | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...alarmed view taken last week by most Business spokesmen toward Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was that, as a chronic social worker and economic planner, he might devise ways-in cahoots with his trust-busting fellow Janizary, Robert Houghwout Jackson, who seems likely to succeed Attorney-General Homer Cummings in January-of fastening new Federal controls upon Business. An entirely different view was expressed by Journalist David Lawrence, one of Business' most alert and alarmable servants. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Second Stocking | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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