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...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mound Bayou | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, 78, widow of New York's famed banker and subway promoter who left an estate of $135,164,000 in 1928; after a heart attack; in the mansion her husband built at Livingston, Va., where his father was a tailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...vote of the U. S. Merchant Tailor Designers Association, the title of "World's Best Dressed Man" was transferred from ex-King Edward VIII to George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...World War, won himself the Military Cross. Later he became a dramatic critic on Manhattan's famed morning World, an intimate of all the Tonys on West 52nd Street and a bosom companion of Noel Coward. Last week the Earl of Amherst, 40, stood in a London tailor's shop wrapped in the mantle of crimson velvet and banded ermine in which he must make obeisance to his King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prelude | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...dozen Presbyterians at random, found ' that all but one, a Southerner, approved of the election of John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built up an interdenominational choir which has given 250 concerts, sings on the air once a week. In their modest home near his church, Mrs. Williams last week neglected the washing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Omaha Impulse | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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