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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know how much I like the color-reproductions of modern art which you inserted between pages 42 & 43. On the other occasion that I was more than pleased with your "Art" section, you ran interpretations of modern American life by Thomas Benton and others of the realistic school [TIME, Dec. 24, 1934]. I think that in both cases the pictures chosen for reproduction were intelligently selected- 'tho my opinion does not amount to anything, since I am a mere dabbler in this field-yet the few chances that I have to come in contact with work like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...hard-bitten Republican critic of the New Deal, is senior partner of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew W. Mellon (TIME, March 11, 1935). Last week Lawyer Hogan marched into District of Columbia Supreme Court, charged that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black Booty | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...selling them to all-comers at $15 per set. This unexpurgated edition, printed from the old Davis plates, had behind it a mass of U. S. court decisions which, to Mr. Cerf, seemed to remove the last effective restrictions on the popular publication of the Ellis masterwork (TIME, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Studies for All | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...enormous volume to independent stores. One reason it has been able to hold its jobbing ground is that it never hesitated to handle low-priced goods, which sell fast and easily. Butler's fellow Chicago wholesaler, Marshall Field & Co., stuck exclusively to quality, finally abandoned jobbing entirely (TIME, Dec. 9). Not until last week, however, was it known what a miserable failure Marshall Field's jobbing activities had actually been. In reporting 1935 profits of $199,000 for Marshall Field as a whole. Chairman James O. McKinsey revealed that the wholesale division had lost no less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Modern Jobber | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Shot with a rifle by his mother during a Thanksgiving drinking bout last autumn (TIME, Dec. 9), Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, contracted pneumonia in his wounded lung, underwent two operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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