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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear Senator Schwellenbach: You will recall that on the occasion of my appearance last week before the Special Committee of the Senate appointed to investigate lobbying activities, of which you are a member, you questioned me at some length on the subject of whether my services had been billed to the member companies of the Associated Gas & Electric System at the amount received by me, or whether there had been a ''loading" by the so-called "Hopson companies" to cover overhead expenses, office rents etc. You had apparently been advised, that although there was no such "loading...
...Chicago, police solved the ingenious suicide of Miles Kramer, 38, unsuccessful inventor, when they discovered his last and most effective invention, a short length of lead pipe which was fixed over a gas stove flame which exploded a .38 cartridge inside the pipe, which killed Miles Kramer...
Nowhere characterizing her husband, or writing at length about him, Anne Lindbergh tells a few anecdotes that reveal him as a matter-of-fact, friendly, laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going...
...present should be confined entirely to medical publications where the hopes of the public would not be unjustifiably raised and a great deal of emotional stress stirred up and the emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone who has been practicing ophthalmology for any length of time has seen cases where an emotional storm has brought on an acute attack of glaucoma with complete loss of vision. I realize that an editor of a public journal, such as TIME, is in a rather difficult situation, but I do think that such mat ters should...
Diamond Jim (Universal) presents a full-length portrait of its hero which is notable both for likeness and for style...