Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Malvina Cynthia Thompson ("Tommy") Scheider, fortyish, secretary and companion of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recently called her "the person who makes life possible for me"; from Frank J. Scheider, New York public school manual training instructor; under a District of Columbia law which makes five years' voluntary separation grounds for divorce; in Washington...
...victorious prize fighter pants into the mike, "Hello, Mom, put on that steak. I'll be right home," they violate the terms on which FCC issues broadcasting licenses. For radio stations hold their licenses only for communication to the public as a whole, are not permitted to broadcast person-to-person messages. Scripts are carefully edited by all stations. But when an enthusiastic broadcaster ad libs some harmless dash out of bounds, FCC makes allowances, does not crack down...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry ("The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr. confirmed a notice issued by him in 1934 advising Treasury employes that they could contribute to party campaign funds so long as they did it voluntarily, without coercion or improper solicitation, and did not give money to "a person in the service of the United States." Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, who had cracked down on Internal Revenue workers for contributing to the cause of Senator-reject McAdoo of California (TIME, Aug. 8), huffed, puffed, said such a difference of opinion proved the necessity of rewriting the campaign...
...First-class relics are parts of the body; second-class, clothing which the saint wore; third-class, anything the saint used or touched. Where relics are known to exist, any church, religious community or pious person may apply for one, usually obtaining a second-class relic...
...order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...