Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FRED EASTMAN The Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill...
Your announcement of new TIME advertisers for 1928 is obviously intended to attract still more advertisers to your sheet. Yet you have the insolence to illustrate this announcement with three thugs in the act of reading TIME. One of them wears an ill-fitting suit, a sloppy hat, and has a cigaret drooping from his mouth. Another has a dented derby pulled down over his face. The third, I must admit, seems to be a rather high-grade thug. Do you think national advertisers will come running to your office, if TIME readers are really as you depict them...
...fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which the rag-pickers, the small coals dealer, the old clothes man and other peddlars philosophize upon life, the scene changes to Louise's workshop. Julien serenades Louise, and reproaches her for not keeping her bargain. Overcome with remorse, she feigns illness and leaves her work to join her lover. They take up their abode on the heights of Montmartre, where in a brilliantly gay ceremony Louise is crowned queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct...
Last week, in Lake Forest, Ill., an old man was having his breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every...
Ninety years ago, Marvin Hughitt was born on a farm in Genoa, N. Y. When he was 15, he was a telegraph operator in Albany. Ten years later he went without sleep for two nights to supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible...