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...handful of important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dry Tail | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...burgher with thinning blond hair, blue eyes red-rimmed by fatigue, lounged in Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel one evening last week, toying dully with a glass of beer. He wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Again, von Gronau | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

School Doctors Flayed. Headmaster Cuthbert Harold Blakiston of Lancing College flayed the Public School Boy of today (see p. 15). Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller. honorary director of the Institute of Medical Psychology, flayed Public School doctors. "School teachers?I refer to those who hold teaching certificates? have at least had some training in psychology, whereas we doctors have not. Any knowledge of the subject that the school medical officer may possess he has acquired since graduation. It follows, therefore, that in dealing with such problems as persistent stealing or homosexuality the teacher is more likely than the doctor to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B. M. A. | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...burden has become unbearable. "There is only one commodity under God's high heaven which is free of tax at this time, and sells at reasonable prices, a commodity that took twelve years of scientific effort and experiment in studying the fine points of production. Gentlemen, 1 refer to CORN LIQUOR. And now, as a crowning infamy, our politicians want to repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Tabloid | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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