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...Slavery Pro and Con," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...Hoover-appointed Democrats whom President Roosevelt allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Texas Titan | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Garage Diplomacy? | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David was beginning to put a misty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monsters | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

King Rudolph of Langenstein Jack Edwards Donald McArthur, (American Actor) Guy Robertson Con Conley (His Press Agent) Andrew Tombes Queen Erna of Langenstein Nancy McCord Countess Putkammer Betty Starbuck...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1934 | See Source »

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