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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main Ball Room suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1,500 guests enjoyed some $50,000 worth of entertainment in honor of the coming out of Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. The social spectrum ranged from Cafe Society's fat impresario, Elsa Maxwell, to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The proceedings which lasted till 7 a. m. were news not only in Manhattan but in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles. Two days later an official seal was set on Brenda Frazier's glamor by a court accounting showing that this "infant over 14" has several trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...furious at the disclosure of German and Italian activities against the Pan-American Conference. On the opening day . . . Lima appeared to be the site of a great Nazi rally. There were literally thousands of swastika flags all over the city. There were only three American flags on the main street, and one of them was at the American Consulate. Also there were more Italian and Japanese flags than there were flags of any South American countries. Throughout the Conference the Government-controlled newspapers used prominent headlines on everything the totalitarian leaders said against the Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Lima Aftermath | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Psychological Clue. Psychoanalyst Felix Deutsch, who left Vienna three years ago to do research work in Harvard Medical School, told physicians meeting in Manhattan last week how he had used psychoanalysis to relieve 100 cases of asthma which had not responded to routine medical treatment. Two main factors which cause asthma, said Dr. Deutsch, are: 1) an underlying susceptibility of the lungs or respiratory tract; 2) a psychological shock. When a psychoanalyst discovers that psychological shock is the precipitating cause, he explains it to the patient, said Dr. Deutsch, and the asthma often disappears. "That there is an emotional background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Asthma Clues | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...other words, in the main they were wash sales to create a profit that did not exist, and what is missing is the alleged profits plus expenses and blackmail money paid to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: No Hidden Treasures | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...ships that sail the North Atlantic, only ten belong to the U. S. Lines. But in the past 15 years hundreds of imperiled seafarers owe their lives to the hail-fellow flag that the fleet flies from its Johnny-on-the-spot main masts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Again, U. S. Lines | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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