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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 27, Miscellany, you tell of Dentist Klein performing a Caesarean operation on his lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week it became apparent that the second biggest city in the land stood to lose $414,129 as the result of his 24-year...
...This is a proposal to use $24,000,000 of the people's money to perpetuate in control of one of our railroads a group of executives who have wrecked that road twice. . . . The Interstate Commerce Commission, in a blistering report, denounced the directors as the wreckers of the property, but the road was reorganized with these same men in control. Now the insiders-the same men who piloted it through two failures-are trying to reorganize...
...right to a salute of eleven guns from British warships by the way in which he influenced the loyalties of his spiritual followers during the War. From his grandfather, kin and onetime crony of Mohammed Shah of Persia, he inherited the best string of Arabian horses in the East. Twice married, the Aga Khan's present wife is the onetime dressmaking daughter of a French innkeeper...
...circulation) was formally taken in charge by the family which has really owned it for the last 40 years-the House of Gray. The late lawyer-politician James Richard ("Jim") Gray, who married Mary Inman of the rich, aristocratic Inman clan, acquired the Journal in 1896 from Hoke Smith, twice Governor of Georgia, twice U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland. When President Gray died in 1917 John Cohen, a Journal newshawk since 1890, was put into the front office as active head of the paper but Widow Gray, as majority stockholder, remained chairman of the board...