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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what he thinks about during his twice-daily moment of congealed concentration, he says: "I think what a hell of a responsibility...
...attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...
...been aimed to have liquid each year the average amount of money needed to pay maturing policies and the normal run of loans and surrenders. What to do when the run of loans and surrenders soared above normal? Last week the insurance commissioners of 31 states who ordinarily meet twice a year assembled in emergency conference at Chicago. One thing was apparent to them all: they must take uniform action, as the bankers of neighboring states had failed...
There are three lectures a week, supplemented by about six hours of laboratory work, most of which is interesting and useful. Problems are assigned about twice a week...
...Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...