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This morning's contribution to the public knowledge of traffic problems is equally notable for saying nothing. As far as suggestions for relieving America's 39,700 fatalities are concerned, this speaker also remains mute. In short, these two speakers disappointed their public, and this is a direct reflection on the Bureau for whom they spoke. Surely it is not too much to expect of experts that they give, instead of vague generalizations, some real suggestions. Future speakers should bear in mind that while the public may not want technical dissertations, they do demand logical analysis, coupled with some original...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUREAU AT BAT--TWO STRIKES | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

...Voice, Fiddle and Flute, No longer be mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Three recent signatures on the visitor's book of the Geographical Institute of Exploration are mute testimony to the fact that one of the many reasons why people go to the building is "to keep out of the rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE YOUR CHOICE; SHELTER FROM RAIN OR INFORMAZIONI | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

First audience sat mute, wide-eyed. Most of them were seeing for the first time U. S. sailors wounded in deadly earnest, U. S. gunners firing at something besides war game targets, alien waters closing over the U. S. colors as a U. S. manofwar, however unseagoing, sank to the 180-ft. bottom of the broad Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Word | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun, asked through the closed door what he wanted. "If you don't answer," she cried, "I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, she shot Deaf-Mute Micas dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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