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Over the State they also plastered bills for an $8,359.80 week-end fishing party which Governor Brann gave at State expense last year: hotel, $4,070.97; railroad, $1,603; cigars and cigarets, $249.55; ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Gamble | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Swing Time (RKO) is the sixth item in that series of exhibitions of sublimated hoofing which have made the team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...most glittering stars. Since radio advertisers are quick to drop a flop, the Lux show clearly demonstrates that certain cinemactors make excellent salesmen for certain products. In the coming season, Lux plans to offer listeners such Hollywood celebrities as Jack Oakie, Helen Twelvetrees, Lily Pons, Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Brian Aherne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moors to Lusitania | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mr. Morgan's Misery | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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