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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simple sample palindrome: Madam, I'm Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palindrome Opera | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...half ago Publisher Wilfred John Funk of the deFunked Literary Digest started a new publishing venture, a 128-page, digest-size, 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life. Publisher Funk's formula was as simple as it was shrewd: "If I talk about myself I'm a bore. If I talk about other people I'm a gossip. But if I talk about you I'm a damned interesting fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midwest M. I. T. | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Some weeks ago Dr. Jerger was haled before a Chicago Medical Society committee on charges that his book and magazine writings violated A. M. A. rules against "self-aggrandizement and solicitation of patients." Later, he claims that he and his patients were barred from all Chicago hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Here's Your Hat! | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. spokesman and Journal editor] is a dictator, a Hitler. I believe in organized medicine. Socialization is fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Here's Your Hat! | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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