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...Ohio's mores, decided that the most kindly thing was to call the affliction a chronic meningoencephalitis. That meant an inflammation of the brain and its membranous envelope. The man's loquacity was the outward manifestation of a brain unhitched and running wild. A course of artificial fever might corral his wandering wits. Again it might...
Easy on the weeklies, TIME! We have to buy baby's shoes on the little business you big shots don't corral...
...public paid no more attention to him than to any other professor. In 1932 Governor Roosevelt told his lawyer friends Samuel Rosenman and Basil O'Connor to go out and bring him specialists to help formulate some good answers to national questions. They selected Raymond Moley to corral the specialists. On his second visit, Dr. Moley brought his next door neighbor, Dr. Tugwell. To Governor Roosevelt, Dr. Tugwell stated his prime belief that private greed under the profits system had caused the Depression. At once Mr. Roosevelt and the professor were on speaking terms; the professor
...this hopeful commotion last week in no way assured early resurrections for the lean ghosts of 1929. As all lawyers know, it is a long and thankless task to corral even two-thirds of any big company's creditors including bondholders. One of President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...