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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they number 65,000 (TIME'S figure) and control the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the American League for Peace and Democracy, the unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
...number of families in the "ill-housed one third" of the U. S. population is some...
...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
...Lexington Hospital, opened in May 1935, is managed by Dr. Walter Lewis Treadway, accommodates 1,000 patients. Most of them are prisoners and parolees who have been sentenced to the farm. But there is a limited number of voluntary patients who are chosen directly by the Surgeon General. Rehabilitation is mainly psychological, based on the principle of "sympathetic treatment," for practically all elaborate physical "cures" are either useless or positively harmful. Only method which has given good results is a rapid reduction over four to ten days of the amount of narcotics the addict is accustomed to take (known...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-price car, looks like Chrysler, De Soto and Dodge, has a 114 in. wheelbase, longest any Plymouth ever had. Its five Roadkings ($740), eight DeLuxes ($805), all turn up 82 h.p. Catchiest number showing is the convertible coupé, with a top that slides magically into place or back at the twist of a dashboard knob. Secret: intake vacuum power...