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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanaticism. Last week, writing to the New York Times, Mr. Peabody urged anyone who could not vote for Hoover or Roosevelt not to vote for Norman Thomas and his diluted Marxism, but for William Z. Foster, the Communist candidate, ''whose success through a large vote really would shock the body politic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Carbondale, Ill., M. J. Going, ill with pneumonia, died of shock during a thunderstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...against Mrs. Lawrence Harper who was runner-up in 1930, when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They played their first set in a pouring rain and Carolyn Babcock won 6-3. Next day they went out to finish and Mrs. Harper, with a day to get over the shock of being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...eyes, skin. The other theory presumes that the sufferer has an unidentified organ in his body which manufactures substances called reagins. Those reagins appear in the blood. Whenever a substance (pollen, food, etc.) appears which unites with a specific kind of reagin, that sets up a reaction in a "shock organ" (nose, eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither claim certainty, allergists have progressed remarkably in treating the multitudinous manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hay Fever | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...Holman, fulminating about a "dastardly frame-up ... a piece of savagery" sped to Winston-Salem to fight for his daughter's freedom. But Mrs. Reynolds did not immediately appear to answer the charge. She was. her father said, in seclusion recovering from shock. Four days after her indictment she gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: At Reynolda | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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