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Dates: during 1930-1939
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(4 of 5) Electric). In 1892, Insull, aged 32, was its vice president, earning $35,000 per year. He was asked to suggest a head for the struggling Chicago Edison Co., a $12,000-a-year job. He suggested himself and his offer was snapped up. Edison was only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Man Comes Home | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Nurses in the American Hospital in Paris told U. S. correspondents that a woman named Marguerite Clark had been brought into the hospital with head bandaged, bruises on her face, was lodged secretly in the maternity wing. Chicago Tribune Newshawk Edmond Taylor slipped into her room, recognized "Marguerite Clark" as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

From Brookes, who was one of the world's best players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis Climax | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

"But flooded with great care, my dear." Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell Corn-wallis-West, now 68, had failed once as an actress when her husband went to South Africa for a tuberculosis cure, leaving 22-year-old Mrs. Campbell with two children. When he came home six years later he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

THE MYSTERY OF VAUCLUSE - J. H. Wallis-Dutton ($2). The monastic peace of the adult college was shattered by the murder of its founder-leader. It took more than one investigator to find out who could be so base.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Answer: Shaw | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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