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Discussed was Professor Roland McMillan Harper's striking discovery that there is a definite correlation between the ownership of motor cars and the prevalence of divorce. Professor Harper, geographer, now research professor of economics at the University of Georgia, adduced as proof that, in the U. S., wealth, motor cars and divorces have all increased in recent years faster than the population, and that they all are more prevalent in cities than in country districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eugenists | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Stony Point, N. Y., State Trooper Arthur Kley gave chase to Evelyn McMillan who, when arrested for speeding, asserted that she had mistaken his uniform for the regalia of a cowboy, had feared an assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Sincere | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr. Harvey James Howard, who spent 14 years in China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prevention of Blindness | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...girls go wrong, and boys too, a Chicago Salvation Army officer surmised last week. He, Commissioner John McMillan, found by observation that three out of five women and every other man whom the Army has helped suffered from malnutrition when young. Their parents had not prevented them from guzzling, or had not given them enough to eat. or were ignorant of the essentials of a balanced diet. Opined the Commissioner: good food will make good morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sin & Food | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...MCMILLAN PALMIERI Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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