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...immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Widow's Wigwam | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval as Mr. Patterson went on: "We have allowed to come in and remain in our business a horde of men unsuited and unfit for life insurance selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unfit Underwriters | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...rule out the unfit is to dismiss them, and N. A. L. U. President Theodore M. Riehle announced that 66% of the membership had pledged themselves to do so. In the past year there were 3,000 such dismissals. A more constructive plan was offered by Vice President Henry E. North of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. who announced the establishment of a $30,000 co-operative fund for underwriter education through the American College of Life Underwriters. Purpose: "To organize and make available in an organized manner the information which men heretofore entering the business have had to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unfit Underwriters | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...because he is constantly in danger. Coupled with this, sailors and air force men find it easier to make a hit with the girls. So new applicants for the army are not only few but mostly down-and-out, therefore undernourished. Three out of five are rejected as physically unfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ugly Duckling | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...afoul of the law with the play "Fiesta," by the New York playwright, Micheal Gold. The original manuscript of the work, a comedy of the Mexican Revolution is on view and next to it is a letter from the Boston board of censors indicating that it was "improper" and "unfit for presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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