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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Tst, tst. Broderick Crawford's shoes in Of Mice and Men (TIME, Dec. 6) have a 4½-in. buildup, not 4 in., as reported. I ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches...
Sirs : Like all other TIME-reading Americans, I read Dr. Thorndike's G.G. requisites (Education, Dec. 13) and applied each as well as possible, with great civic pride, to our broadminded, mineral-water drinking, democratic town of 2,200 cattle-town citizens...
Last week, nearly a year after Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons banned church-sponsored "bingo" games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon all games in which money or the equivalent could be won. Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned...
...Soon to become Smith, Barney & Co. by merging with Edward B. Smith & Co. (TIME, Dec...
...long William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney and at present counsel for badgered Herbert Fleishhacker, top-flight San Francisco financier & businessman. Lawyer Neylan was not in a happy mood last week. Not only had he and Client Fleishhacker just lost one damage suit in San Francisco (TIME, Dec. 20), but Federal Judge George Cosgrave, hearing another damage suit in Los Angeles, was handing him many an adverse ruling in testimony. Suddenly exasperated Lawyer...