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Although his fortune is estimated at well above $5,000,000, there is no swish to William Woodward. He owns no marble palace, no yacht, no private railroad car. He has four homes (Manhattan town house, Long Island country place, Newport cottage, Maryland farm) but none of them is pretentious. His four daughters, beauteous like their mother, were never advertised as Glamor Girls, had no noisy coming-out parties. His only son sails a 15-foot boat on Long Island Sound?and when Father Woodward wants to go yachting he sails the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Leak. Although Mr. Chamberlain did not know how the story of the conversations could have leaked out, the angry, outspoken Mr. Hudson had an idea that it was none other than Dr. Wohlthat who had broken his confidence. If that were so, Dr. Wohlthat could scarcely have done a better day's work for his Führer. For it is just such appeasement rumors that weaken Polish, French and general European confidence in Britain's promises to stop further German aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Smoke and Fire | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tic Tactics | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...None of this need worry depositors whose accounts are guaranteed by FDIC. But it is plenty to worry FDIC, which will have to make good future losses; something to worry the Government which is morally obligated to keep FDIC from ever going bust; something to worry business which has to support the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Money on Relief | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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