Word: schemm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoirs, etc. A minor tide which showed no signs of ebbing in 1938 was a wave of books about doctors. Recent best-selling examples: An American Doctor's Odyssey, The Horse and Buggy Doctor, The Citadel. A book called Dr. Norton's Wife, by Dr. Ferdinand Schemm's wife, Mildred Walker, appeared last week just in time to ring the big year...
...publication. Its publishers admitted that publicity of the investigation forced them to close up shop. Tatler, despite the fact that it has never made money, announced that it would continue publication. But in his presumptuous "grading" of debutantes in the January issue it was observed that Editor John C. Schemm dealt only with grades "A," "B," "C" and a list headed "And Also." Gone were the dreadful "D" and "EZ" classifications which were alleged to include names of young ladies whose parents had chosen not to become Tatler stockholders...
...Editor Schemm revealed that he alone graded the débutantes on the basis of their family histories, that "it isn't the girl that is being graded, it is the family...
...Editor Schemm-People who have for several generations lived a clean, decent life...
...Editor Schemm-Yes, if a man has for-bears who happen to have been a Governor or had achieved in a military way, that is all taken into consideration...