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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oxford Group, Ltd. | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

The chief bang-bang-bang artist is an insurance counselor named Donald Besdine, who broadcasts 55 times a week, in person and by transcription. But the arch radio-counselor of them all (in Manhattan there are some half dozen on the air) is a cagey, kinky-haired, 38-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Insurance Aired | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Popular "Church" Mehard was accused of settling damage claims against the city out of court, taking $11,299 m kickbacks from litigants' attorneys. During his first month in office, the city paid out $16,-981.75 in such settlements; during his last, $131)990. Stumpy Lawyer Morris Levy (also indicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rake's Progress | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Testifying against the Wagner Health Bill on the grounds that it might loose a flood of needless Government-given medical care, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, rhetorically demanded: "Shall there be also plastic surgery at public expense for all degrees of lop ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week members of the American Medical Association, meeting in Missouri, were even more skeptical of Lina Medina's extreme youth. Most of the members believed that Lina was at least eight or nine, little younger than several U. S. child mothers now living in the South. Baby teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Mother | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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