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...McCay stood in front of the screen and gave a sort of lecture, "Gertie" would bow and act as if she were responding to Mr. Mc-Cay's instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when he made his report after four months work, the directors were so impressed that they took a step drastic in any business and completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Professor's Purge | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Frank Mc-Hugh), Warner Brothers demonstrate the advances that have been made in undersea safety since the disasters that befell the S-4 and S-51* in the last decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemistry at Philadelphia, King described his method and exhibited some of the crystals. Mc-Collum,* who was in the audience, rose to give King his scientific blessing for having made a great scoop for American Chem-istry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Index Uproar | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Refund | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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