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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ouseley") and his medico pals soon discovered what was wrong with Anatomy-"it lacked humor." They worked hard to make up the deficiency. Their workshops were fat Mr. Golly's bar, the Hay Hotel (an all-night cabbies' eating joint), Mrs. Mack's brothel. Here, on pawnshop financing, they galloped their horseplay, sang bawdy limericks, chummed with Jenny, the circus tumbler, Liverpool Kate, "the well-known and popular epileptic," Piano Mary, a neurotic socialist whose propaganda was Shakespearean readings in Mrs. Mack's brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gogarty & Pals | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...formed another government only a few days before the Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater than the assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...pawnbroking is a $600,000,000 a year business. Reputedly the oldest and most celebrated U. S. pawnshop is that of William Simpson, Inc., which was founded in Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...have the message of a great Democratic President read . . . that it was 'a relic of constitutional government.' ... I merely desire to indicate now that I am not one of the Senators who is proud of the fact that some people in Virginia want to make a pawnshop out of the Treasury of the U. S. . . . Mr. President, I had not purposed to raise a riot of oratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riot of Oratory | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Into an Oklahoma City pawnshop stepped a pretty young woman to borrow money on a wedding ring, a gold medal, a gold football, a pin of Yale's famed Skull & Bones Society. Each was engraved: E. H. COY-YALE U. "Could it be Ted Coy, the Yale athlete?" ventured the pawnbroker. "Yes," said the girl, "I am his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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