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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany v. Rotters. Last week New Yorkers were edified to learn precisely how Tammany leaders collect on the patronage they dole out. Miss Annie Mathews, onetime (1922-29) Register of New York County and now leader in the same Democratic district with big fat-faced Martin J. Healy, whose indictment last year for accepting a $10,000 bribe in return for a judgeship began the Scandals of New York, addressed a League of Women Voters meeting, startled the community by declaring innocently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sales Technique | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Married. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Earl of Ypres; onetime fiancée of Henry Bradley Martin Jr. of Manhattan; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Ursulines, as every good Catholic knows, are a teaching order of nuns (established 1572). Mere Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1670) was born in Tours, named plain Marie Guyard. At 17 she married a M. Martin and bore him a son. Not till her husband was dead and Marie was 32 did she enter the Ursuline convent. There her mysticism and executive ability marked her for a super-nunnish career. When the call came for volunteers to go to Quebec, Mere Marie heard it and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nun Exhumed | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Stomach Cancer. Ammonia, uric acid, urea and aminoacid have recently been discovered in stomach juices. Certainly an increase of those substances is associated with cancer, and perhaps with other diseases. Dr. Lay Martin of Johns Hopkins is trying to find out, hoping that the proportions of those substances in gastric juices may help early diagnosis of stomach cancer. For some undetermined reasons cancer of the digestive tract has become more frequent recently, observed Dr. Thomas Richardson Brown of Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Physicians | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...grant was made to J. B. Martin to aid in defraying the cost of printing "Allan Ramsay, a Study of His Life and Works". Milman Parry, instructor in Greek and Latin and tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages, was awarded a grant to aid him in preparing for publication, "A Handbook of Homeric Style; with Preparatory Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE PROFESSORS RECEIVE GRANTS TO FURTHER STUDY | 3/31/1931 | See Source »

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