Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too...
* Otherwise notable because Chicago Tribune Critic Eleanor Jewett, panner of previous shows for "modernism" (TIME, May 16), praised this one for the same.
"The family doctor is indispensable to the community and the nation . . . nine times out of ten he is as well able to handle a case as the specialist is; and . . . if the profession does not take care, the family doctor will vanish. . . . The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization...
One of the most spectacular pool operators of Wall Street's New Era was tense, redheaded Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, onetime theatre ticket agent. Same week in 1935 that SEC started to drive him off the Exchange on charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130...
Not long afterward the same customer began joining marriage bureaus, get-acquainted and lonely-hearts clubs. He was, he lied, a middle-aged dairyman with $100,000. The answers poured in, mainly from women between 35 and 50 (80%, overweight)-nurses, stenographers, club women, even a few plane-owners. Unasked...