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Above all other men, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a scourge and a goad to the South, an exasperation to practical statesmen like Stephen A. Douglas. Handsome, imposing, humorless and incorruptible, Sumner stood in the Senate for years denouncing slaveholders as keepers of a nameless abomination; yet he had nothing whatever to say as to how $4,000,000,000 in slave property could be liquidated. "He seemed to insist," says Sandburg, "that he could be an insolent agitator and a perfect gentleman both at once. His critics held that he was either a skunk or a white swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...heat turned on in her studio, food brought in, eviction proceedings stopped. Mrs. Johnson, whose onetime husband changed his name from Jenkins to Johnson as a wedding present to her, graciously accepted his aid. Other offers of help poured in, headed by $1,000 from a "nameless registered nurse." Heartened, the indomitable Mrs. Johnson made a promise. "I'm good for another 20 years. I'll continue with my work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Statue Smasher | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Proud should Mr. Francis W. Dunn be of his heavy-drinking, nameless friend about whom he writes in the May 29 issue of TIME (p. 11). His entire life must have been happily spent in an alcoholic stupor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Gatewood, 51, fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the American Medical Association; of angina pectoris; in Highland Park, Ill. His parents never gave him a first name, left him to choose his own. Because he could not find one to suit him, he died first-nameless...

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

...over the world, "Doctor Charlie" was known as the co-organizer of America's most streamlined medical factory rather than as a practicing physician. To millions of Americans, the Mayo Clinic, with its staff of 160 top-flight physicians, its swift conveyor-belt system in which invalids, nameless but numbered, are shunted from consultants to specialists to surgeons, has long been known as the Supreme Court of condemned patients. To thousands of forward-looking physicians, the 50-year-old Clinic, which long ago initiated group practice and dispensed with family doctors, stands as a model for medical practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Charlie | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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