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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES-Ernst P. Boas & Nicholas Michelson-Macmillan ($2.50). †U. S. almshouses contain 85,000 inmates, three-fourths of whom need constant medical attention, get little...
...George V, at Sandringham, was delivered an all-British, six-wheeled motor car, built for maximum speed of 60 m. p. h. Col. Francesco de Pinedo, round-the-world Italian flyer in the ill-fated seaplanes Santa Maria and Santa Maria II (TIME, April 18, 1927), resigned as Chief of Italy's General Staff for Aviation. Successor: General Valle...
...bless the gods who wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped...
Idaho, in the course of his Jewry v. Islam speech at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see p. 26), said: "Generally, when I do not reflect, I say what I think...
...save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation, see p...