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...chemical, but biological. She couldn't give her husband a baby, so decided to give him a chance with somebody else. His not wanting that chance didn't make any difference. This is all very well, except that the solution as presented on the stage is biologically unsound, as at least every woman in the audience must have noticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/10/1936 | See Source »

...strength will influence the future strategy of the Democrats remains to be seen. If they do not deceive themselves, it will. It seemed to thoughtful people that the warlike note struck in Philadelphia, which could only be interpreted as the assurance of a continuance of Leftist reform, was unsound politically because the country was temporarily tired of reform. The Gallup poll provides impartial evidence to support the wisdom of that judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tired of Reform | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...clearing house committee of the New York Clearing House, or its chairman, as such, has no power to bind member banks to a guaranty of the deposits of an unsound member. Such authority is not conferred expressly or implied by membership in the association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearing House Cleared | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this respectable publishing fortune on the ground that Mrs. Nieman was of unsound mind when her testament was drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Milwaukee Muddle | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Died. Albert Dalimier, 61, oldtime French politician, member of twelve French Cabinets; after a long illness; in Paris. In 1932, while Minister of Labor, he dispatched circular letters recommending investment in the unsound Bayonne municipal pawnshop bonds offered by arch-Swindler Alexandre Stavisky. He resigned the day Stavisky's body was found, was ousted from the Radical Socialist Party during the scandal that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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