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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circles around Dr. Townsend, and he devoted but three pages to a systematic demolition of his rival's ideology. On sounder economic ground he reared his own plans. He proposed no guaranteed bounty for idle pensioners but a better ordered economic society in which even the poorest could earn a living some 60% better than the average U. S. citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: $2,500 a Year | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner visited U. S. medical schools, U. S. clinics, studied the by-laws of the state medical boards which licensed new practitioners. His findings he presented incisively in Medical Education the United States & Canada, which was published in 1910, had a wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schooling for Doctors | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Even more heretical than Soapman Fels is Soapman J. Crate Larkin, who is really a soapman only by tradition. Larkin Co. was founded as a soap works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Social Soapmen | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...other terrorists" and that he is "prone to shout 'Forged!' " when confronted by an opponent's evidence. What about the Uruguayan Minister, who is as much a party to the incident as Litvinoff? What kind of parents was Guani born of and how did he earn a living before becoming Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Gruenberg advised that children should begin to receive spending money between the ages of 5 and 7, because one "must learn to spend before he can earn." The allowance should be given as something due the child, not as something for which he must work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pedoculture | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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