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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grateful to Mr. Lamale of Wabash, Ind. for clearing up the Floy Floy business. Imagine trying to sleep in an overnight cabin with a community house 20 ft. in back of you where dancing went on from seven to twelve with music from a victrola and 15 records, one of them Flat Foot Floogie. The words from that distance sounded as if somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Jewish-Irish- Muncie, Ind. is "Middletown," U. S. A. Benjamin Victor Cohen was born there in 1894, son of a scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Wabash, Ind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Like most other expanding U. S. cities, Fort Wayne, Ind. (Pop.: 115,000) suffers from growing pains.* An up-&-coming industrial community (automotive, agricultural, electrical equipment), its increasing land values have kept some of its poor underhoused, encouraged some of its rich to hold available outlying land for development. Mightily impressed by this contradiction has been William B. Hall, Yaleman, son of President Arthur F. Hall of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., head of Lincoln's mortgage department. A onetime flying teacher, inventor of a revolving neon sign, 33-year-old Bill Hall is not a stodgy real-estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up-&-Down Projects | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Announced for next week was a "Cornfield Conference" of Republicans at the farm of Homer E. Capehart, vice president of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments). Place: Washington, Ind. Theme: winning Midwestern seats in Congress (Republicans have but one out of Indiana's 14, for example). Keynoter: New York's Representative James W. Wadsworth. Expected attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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