Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of them are political hacks or indigent relatives of Congressmen. Lately some of them have been publicly disgraced. In Washington, a Federal deputy marshal tried last autumn to fix a jury to help the Brothers Warring, rich operators of a numbers racket. In Kansas City, two deputy marshals escorting a prisoner from Fort Leavenworth to Chicago got drunk. Last week Thomas E. Ott, former chief deputy marshal of Washington, D. C., was arrested in Cleveland for embezzlements which brought his discharge last December...
...remember now," Reinhold Faust explained last week. "The rich man question was up at that time. I was fanatic enough to do that thing. I wanted only to scare people. ... I am just a peaceful...
...rich Oklahoma City utilitarian named Hubert Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...
...Rhazes, famed Arabian clinician of the 9th Century, used successful if violent psychology in treating neurotic patients. He once placed a rich man, who was crippled by rheumatism, in a hot bath. Then, leaving a saddled horse at the front door, he grasped a sharp knife, brandished it in his patient's face and reviled him. Infuriated, the man leaped out of his bath, while Rhazes fled to his horse. The patient was cured, but Rhazes never returned...
...William Harvey, who discovered in the early 17th Century the way the blood circulates, was "a little man with twinkling* SURGEONS ALL-Rich & Cowan, London (18s.). eyes. . . . When he was lecturing he had a little wand of whalebone tipped with silver," which he used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till...