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...obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass its occupant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...letters fraudulently secured from dissatisfied users; boycotting distributors; shutting off the supply of "mix"; offering to purchase used counter freezers from druggists at exorbitant prices; threatening to set up rival drugstores if a counter freezer was installed; sponsoring legislation and ordinances drawn to penalize users; persuading sanitary inspectors to harass stores where freezers were employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Novelty Suit | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...crowd which jammed the railroad yards heard him call upon the populace, which voted solidly against public ownership of the city's light system year ago, to overrule "obstructionists, few in number in comparison with the whole population [who] are leaving no stone unturned to block and harass and to delay this great national program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Is Well | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Uneasiness about amebic dysentery last week continued to harass Chicago Exposition visitors as Winnipeg reported the appearance of a case and New York City the appearance of eight cases, four of them traceable to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Last month a new kind of attack came to harass the chiropractors of Paterson, N. J. By last week it was indisputable that someone was making a systematic attempt to rob them not simply of their livelihoods but of their lives. On July 17 Chiropractor Alfred Post took his automobile to a garage for repairs. A mechanic lifted the engine hood, had a small bomb explode in his face. Week later, too hurried to drink his usual luncheon malted milkshake at his office, Dr. Post gave it to a Negro elevator operator Last week the Negro was still partially paralyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bombs for Chiropractors | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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