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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes in for bughouse antics, wisecracks, catcalls, pranks and late hours; The Hickory House, where the "cats" do some of their best caterwauling, put on special Sunday matinees. Chief Greenwich Village branch for swing is the bright-basemented bohemian Cafe Society, "the right place for the wrong people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Star had been given the use of the Winnipeg Free Press's newsstands for the day. A special plane had left Minneapolis, 435 miles to the south, loaded down with copies of the early edition. Under an eight-column headline the Star played the story, written in advance, which it had worked so hard to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quick, Warm Gesture | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux City. That got him back into the newspaper business and he moved on to the St. Paul Globe and then the Minneapolis Journal, which paid him $30 a week to be sports editor and cover special events such as the last war with the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegler's Pa | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Corp. to finance self-liquidating Federal, State, municipal public works "at any rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements for a modern financial toolkit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Last Word | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Several months ago, said Dr. Patton, a worried dog owner consulted him about the howling and staggering of his sturdy, thoroughbred dogs. Dr. Patton found that ten days before, the owner had taken his dogs off a special diet rich in vitamin B1 (found in whole cereals, meat, milk and eggs). He now fed them nothing but starchy dog food. When Dr. Patton gave the dogs meat and a well-balanced dog-food diet again, they made "a rapid and prompt recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B, for Fits | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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