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Doughnut's Hole. "Repeated shocks stimulate fear and hesitation among our businessmen. These fears and apprehensions are unnecessarily increased by that minority of people who would make political capital out of the Depression through magnifying our unemployment and losses. Other small groups make their contribution to distress by raids on our markets to profit from depreciation of securities and commodities. Both groups are within the law; they are equally condemned by public and business opinion...
Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...
Recalling the financial distress of the Lambs Club last summer (TIME, July 7) pessimists might see in the N. V. A. club-house's closing another indication of the paupery of the theatrical profession. Bu the N. V. A. club has always run an annual deficit. For years Edward Franklin Albee variety tycoon (Keith-Albee), footed thi losses until his death in 1930. A recent drive to get members to pay their bad bills amassed some $60,000, insufficient to keep the place open. It will probably b turned into a hotel...
...difficulties in the way of graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours of economic distress. The Boston Globe
Last week Editrix Suzanne La Follette announced that her distress signals for funds to continue The New Freeman (liberal weekly) had been answered by generous friends (TIME, May 11). But beginning with the June issue, the magazine will become a monthly...