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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some nine years ago she remonstrated with her third husband for his philandering. He kicked her in the stomach. The kick caused a partial paralysis. She went to a faith-healer for relief. He was "not treating colored folks that day." The injured woman dropped to her knees and shrilled her prayers directly to God. If He would cure her, she would have faith to cure others, and she would cure them black or white. By & by she recovered, ministered to others, amassed "voluntary donations," built a "manger" in the swamps, swore never to leave the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Physicking Priestess | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Angry as a gentleman and a Conservative can be-and that is very angry-Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill wrote a letter last week to the leader of his party, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, with whom he recently came to a partial break on the St. Gandhi issue (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No. 2 by No. 2 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Most active of the consulting physicians at present is Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, M. D. Last week Dr. Wilbur was glad to announce that one of the giant's pains has been partially, temporarily, deadened. For Standard Oil Co. of Indiana finally agreed that for 90 days it will curtail its Venezuela production and imports by 23%. This compares to a 25% reduction by Royal Dutch-Shell. Although independent oilmen have wanted a total embargo or at least a tariff, this voluntary partial curtailment of imports was welcomed by them. Coming a week before the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moaning Giant | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Died. Edwin Haldeman Dennison, 58, U. S. Consul in Quebec since 1919; in Quebec. A partial paralytic, he slipped in his bathtub, struck the hot water tap, was scalded head-to-foot before he could be pulled out. He died two days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...could give the advanced a free rein and at the same time bring those less mature to a point where they too would be ready for emancipation. A link would thus be made between the schools and the colleges and the problems of adjustment would at least find partial solution. In addition the adviser should help the student to form a standard of values in regard to extra-curricular activity and social matters which he might never work out for himself or which he might delay until much of its value was lost. Increased emphasis on the function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVISE THE FRESHMEN | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

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