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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brain Squeeze. When they suddenly sit up, stand up, drop into a chair, fall into bed or tumble, some people get dizzy, may even develop headaches. Immediate cause: sudden shifting of blood and other fluids within the brain, skull and spinal column. These squeeze the brain unduly. Usual underlying cause: hardening of the arteries and failure of the subtle body mechanism which should instantaneously regulate blood pressure and circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrists in Washington | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Someone suggested to Lash that the way to make money was to paint theatre drop curtains with a scene in the middle and advertisements along the edges, such as European music halls then used. U. S. theatre managers, however, did not like them. Thereupon Lash had the further extraordinary idea of painting the advertisements in the middle of the curtain, as though they were signboards in his landscape. Within a year he, his father and brother had sold one of the curtains to nearly every music hall in California, set out to cover the U. S. Presently, Lee Lash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At 70 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...decision on Monday to wash its trembling hands of the Chaco affair and drop the bowling brat on the doorway of Argentine and Chile, the League cast before it the shadow of its inevitable conduct in this new crisis. It is faintly humorous that Baros Pompeo Aloisi should be the one to express on behalf of Europe boisterous applause at the policy of leaving American affairs in the hands of Americans. In a similar mood the League's reluctance to meddle in the private lives of her friends in Asia has already formed a none too bright chapter of world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

Catching up last week on her dancing and French, Miss McCully thought she would turn down an offer from the proprietor of a Chicago fish bowl. Reason: she would have to drop her seaweed laprobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since the store promptly sank into the red again and Cousin Richard had to be recalled. Few weeks ago the Board of Directors threatened to drop Richard from office again. The violent personal quarrel, which was destined to become the first public break in the Gimbel clan, concerned one Arthur C. Kaufmann, whom President Bernard had hired from McCreery's in Pittsburgh to become merchandising manager. Mr. Kaufmann was given an office near Richard. Immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gimbel v. Gimbel | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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