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...frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease of the blood vessels which brings about the gangrenous disease. One of them was paretic enough to attempt suicide by throwing himself out of a window and at 45 is a bedridden pauper at the expense of the tax payer, an incurable brain syphilitic. The second had also frosted toes. He died of his gangrene and associated syphilis and never was near a chain gang. The third had frosted toes and is still running around the world with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...Population v. 'Poetess'," displaying the picture of Joan Warner, "Slave Dancer," sans fan, brassiere or pants, petite but well shackled, holds up your seemingly established principle: no fear for the nine P's of the press-public ipinion, president, pope, potentate, priest, preacher, police, prince, or pauper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...scraggle-haired bespectacled man in a white suit, with crimson suspenders visible under his open coat. Into the President's air-cooled office marched the politically-minded publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and his friend. Franklin Roosevelt swung in his chair and, smiling just as he smiles on pauper and potentate, stuck out his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: On a Hook | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...Manhattan, when blind Dominick Caputo. 25. missed his best suit of clothes, he asked his pauper roommate and best friend. Pasquale Mascia, 28, to lead him to the police station. Police got him to describe the clothes, informed him that Roommate Mascia was wearing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1935 | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...engine. Fuel they had none till they discovered and worked a seam of coal on the grounds. Three weeks of drilling and they struck oil-30 barrels a day. Last week Superintendent and neighbors grinned no more when Yerian & Hupp turned down $10,000 for the well, organized Pauper Oil Co. Said Yerian to Hupp: "I don't care how much oil we strike. I'm going to stay here as long as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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