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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The most talked-up cinema in many a year, Marco Palo proves the contention popularly attributed to the oft-twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

In 1931, when ruddy, jovial Jim Curley was Mayor of Boston, a city water connection burst, flooding the premises of General Equipment Corp. From Ernest Wr. Brown Co., its insurance agency. General Equipment collected $70,199.29. The agency salvaged $15,488.15 worth of equipment, was left $54,711.14 out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Consciousness of Guilt | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

In the Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his standing with his constituents when he sued to obtain half the $400,000 yearly income of his wife, a sister of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Support | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Cavalcade's back-bending apologies placated the old knight, but within a month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Double Muddle | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Last week a Chicago judge reluctantly used the old Holmes decision, only precedent in U. S. jurisprudence on this phase of the legal status of fetuses, to deny $100,000 damages to a Mrs. Theresa Joller Smith, who had sued Dr. Albert E. Luckhardt and Radiologist Isador Simon Trostler. Thirteen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Rights | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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