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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a young man who said, "God, You must find it exceedingly odd That a tree, as a tree, Simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...American Woolen Co. fortune. The customs men followed her up to the Ayer penthouse, there spent three hours going through her personal effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where they would find Paris finery worth some $26,000 which Mrs. Ayer had allegedly brought into the U. S. over the past four years with gross evasion of duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mary Doe's Dowager | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...buggy" medicine according to the rules of the past generation at the expense of "the defenceless sick." Dr. Bernheim's remedy: medical licenses should be granted not for life but for periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find it fatal to neglect postgraduate study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Terrible Old Reactionary | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Montgomery Ward's was tall Wilson Everett Burgess, 29, an amateur radio operator in his spare time. At the first whiff of the big wind, Wilson Burgess, with a radio ham's foresight and resourcefulness, began gathering all the dry cells and radio "B" batteries he could find in stock. Battling his way home with the stuff, he found his wife and baby scared but safe. But the hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hero's Reward | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

With a combination of George Bernard Shaw and Broadway's leading exponents of free love romping across the screen at the University Theatre, the current bill is an especially gay affair. It's a rare and happy treat to find two such grade A pictures as "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "Pygmalion" on the same showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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