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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

...Chicago, when Nino Rinaldo took Margot King & Sadie Stearns to the Ranch Cafe for lunch, Sadie Stearns picked an oyster from Margot King's plate to sample. When she found in it a $1,900 pearl, Discoverer Stearns, Orderer King, Payer Rinaldo, Vendor Ranch Cafe all brought suit for possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Transcript, many another worthy sheet. Said the Transcript: "If the garment now called shorts should be lengthened to reach the knee, would it comply with the rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor drew a sketch called "A Thousand Welcomes," showing a newspaper artist bored with such topics as the Drought, Hitler and the Far East, examining with approval the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shorts: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation in an emergency, and be an unnecessary burden on the tax-payer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Baker's Dozen | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...would have been made. These debts were adjusted years ago. Heavy reductions were made. France received something like a fifty per cent reduction, Italy something like 70 per cent. These debts are due. And, either the nations which owe them will have to pay them or the American tax-payer will have to pay them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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