Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against the taxi company. Then Doe was transferred to a hospital where the gang had a doctor. X-rays were taken of his leg, retouched to indicate it was broken. The plates won a fat fee from the taxi company, but Doe never saw his share. Kept in the hospital for weeks recovering from injuries he did not have, he ended up with a bill which completely absorbed his half of the money. This sort of ambulance-chasing, Chicago police are now set to chase...
...mechanic in Father Divine's "Peace" Garages swore that the Harlem "God" paid him his weekly $30 in cash from a fat roll of bills. An Ulster county realtor said that Father Divine paid him $8,000 in bills from a satchel for a tract of the cult's "Promised Land" (TIME, Aug. 31), although title to the property was conveyed to a Divine disciple. One of 30 cashiers in Divine restaurants, a girl who had taken the name of "Humility Consolation," reported that all receipts were paid to Father Divine, that on many a night the clinking...
Producer Sol Lesser, who made the picture, got his background as a childstar impresario by manufacturing pictures for Jackie Coogan, Jackie Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth...
...least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized, ". . . it is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good." It was soon found that dinitrophenol also causes cataracts, scarcity of white blood cells, other disabilities (TIME, July...
...Since '29-So Much Extra Cash To Spend," lushed the Wall Street Journal last week in advertising copy which was simply a facsimile of its front page with ringed items about record automobile show attendance, a coming Florida boom and fat extra dividends. November was the greatest dividend month in history, with total declarations, mostly payable before Christmas, mostly inspired by the Federal tax on undistributed profits, footing up to more than...