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Word: cummingses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henceforth John Doctor may prescribe as much liquor as he pleases for any patient he pleases. But the patient must be bona fide. Otherwise sprightly Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, may arrest John Doctor, and stern Mr. Cummings, the Attorney General, may throw him into jail.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whiskey Prescriptions | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Last week the following were news: Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric (recently ordered by court decree to rid itself of its Radio Corp. stock), was denied by Attorney General Cummings the right to continue on the Radio Corp. board-unless he resigned from General Electric. Beneficent utilitarian though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

From the moment President Roosevelt in his inaugural address opened fire on "unscrupulous money changers and their false leadership" his Attorney General, Homer Stillé Cummings, has concentrated his efforts on rooting out what political Washington calls "bad bankers." One of his methods is to prosecute them obliquely under the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Meddlie's Blurt | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Though Attorney General Cummings said he had no criticism to make of the delay in the Harriman case, members of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency felt strongly otherwise. Ferdinand Pecora, the Committee's special counsel and investigator, was dispatched to Manhattan to get the facts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Meddlie's Blurt | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Esoteric Fellows | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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