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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charity ward of a Los Angeles hospital last week lay a wrinkled little man with sparse grey hair combed straight back. The habitual frightened look of the sick poor dropped from his wizened face as newshawks approached. "Hell!" snapped the little man. "There's nothing wrong with me. Be out of here in a week." But reporters knew that, perhaps for the last time, they were seeing and hearing James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, great jockey, famed rounder, spender, one-time friend of millionaires and occasional toast of royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Man | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Throughout the tour, little has been said of the Laymen's Report on missions which raised deepest theological questions, such as whether or not Christ should be proclaimed to the heathen as God (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932 et seq.). Nothing has been said of oldtime ''Hell-fire for heathens"; much of good works for all humans. Missionary Jones loves the Cross (which the Report does not mention), distrusts syncretism (fusion of religions, which he believes the Report advocates). In Boston he cried: '"Our syncretism is not a patchwork but a Personality. Not our Western civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting to be hanged for an anti-war murder while the U. S. joins a new European conflict. Manhattan audiences emerged from the theatre to hear hawkers of The Dally Worker (Communist) shouting, "All About to Hell with America," "Full Account of the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...only three months' schooling when he got a job with International Harvester, rose to a position which no other man outside of Chicago's McCormick family has held. A huge, blunt man, he made Washington hostesses and diplomats uneasy, advised his critics to go to Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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