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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This service was first established on some special trains on the Berlin-Hamburg run. Whether it is still being used I am unable to say, but it was by no means a stunt like the conversation between London, England and tram running from Montreal to Chicago which you mention in your article. The intention of the German Railroads was to establish a regular service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

From the moving train, travelers can make hotel or other reservations, converse with anyone they wish to reach, play the markets, etc., by merely stepping into the train radiotelephone booth and asking the operator to establish a radio-telephone connection with anyone anywhere in Germany. This train radio-telephone service is widely used and much appreciated by travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

While Justice Butler read a decision Mr. Van Devanter leaned over and whispered to Chief Justice Hughes. In 20 minutes a few decisions of little public interest had been read, Court orders issued providing for hearing next autumn of cases challenging PWA's loans to establish municipal power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Farewell Appearance | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...those imbeciles was smart enough to establish a house of prostitution in Baltimore. Whether any connection still exists between the traffic in housemaids and in prostitutes was something which Baltimoreans had to think about last week when J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation suddenly pounced upon ten local houses and arrested 50 women. He believed them all victims of white slavery, pawns of a far-flung ring. Said he: "Conditions are very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrists at Pittsburgh | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...before a Master in Chancery which may drag on two years, Mrs. Jones testified that she is afraid she will not receive property valued at $500,000 orally promised by her grandfather because her father is under the domination of his second wife. Mrs. Jones is suing now to establish the oral promise as a constructive trust, before her father's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Quieting Fears | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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