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"Henry Ford," he rumbled, "may believe that he is the biggest industrialist in America; he may believe that his will is superior to the will of his employes; he may believe that he is bigger than the United Automobile Workers; he may believe that he is bigger than the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera. In 1849, polluted drinking water brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Roch & Cholera | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

" 'A hostess,' said Tilley, coldly. 'Provided by the livery stable. Another dubious wonder of the modern world. In the event of emergency, she will be the one to walk to the nearest farmhouse, give the alarm, and be photographed.* Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tilley's Farewell | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

¶Out of San Antonio, Tex. last week rumbled one of the last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptor Troubles | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

At 5 p. m. last Friday the 48 office workers of L. L. Coryell & Son in Lincoln, Neb. pulled out their desk drawers, emptied them, packed typewriters, files and work-in-progress into large cardboard boxes on which their names were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Father & Son | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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