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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Merchants' Association told the press. The press told the story. Last week the Merchants' Association received a letter from one Frederick Paul, farmer, of Stemmers, Md. Wrote he: "We saw a piece in the Baltimore News saying the Turkish Government is asking your association to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Hoggers | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piggott | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Untamed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Any picture acted by so handsome a young woman as Joan Crawford is not hard to watch, even one so foolish as Untamed. There were possibilities of satire in the idea of a girl brought up in a South American jungle becoming a social success in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Under the special definition and with the leadership of Dr. Frederick Madison Allen, 50, who as a Rockefeller Institute man introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiatric Hospital | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gould Digging | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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