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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way-and funny thing, damn...

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

...Between Main Street of Delaware, Ohio, and the sluggish Olentangy River slopes the wooded campus of co-educational Ohio Wesleyan University.* The University's principal attractions (to about 1,350 students) are top-notch courses in physical education, business administration, zoology. Preeminence of zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rice for O. W. U. | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: T. P. | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind are food, fuel, clothing, shelter and a job, and medical care and dental care must always be subservient to these main human needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plan & Poise | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Hankering after the good old days, but grateful for modern medical advancement, Hertzler's main grievances are against neurotic female patients, most assistant surgeons, meddling parsons, quacks, lawyers (malpractice suits "are dependent on the presence of a lawyer in a state of malnutrition"), believers in mental healing. During a tumor operation, when a patient's friend stood by repeating "You think you see something, but there is nothing there," "Pop" held himself in till he finished, then slammed the gory ten-pound tumor on her feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kitchen Surgeon | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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