Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...
Will you please refer to the issue of TIME dated Aug. 23, p. 21 under the heading Transport, where you depict the scene of the "Chatsworth Wreck" on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, particularly, the ending of the fourth paragraph, advising the public the Van Sweringen interests had taken the road out of receivership...
...first place, the Van Sweringen interests never had any part of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, and to me, this is a grave error, as the shipping public has come to know the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad as one of the progressive small railroads in our country. Further, if you will get the financial report as available to you, you will find we have been an aggressive and progressive railroad...
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad...
...Story. Fully aware of the rumors that had escaped the ears of Franklin Roosevelt, the Post Gazette sent its eccentric, middleaged, ace political factfinder, Ray Sprigle, to Alabama to investigate the story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could...