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...Floyd Odium, no-socialite, lives quietly at Forest Hills, L. I. where he belongs to the West Side Tennis Club but plays no tennis. His favorite relaxation is modeling clay figures in the evening. He has fashioned enough to fill a room, but always squashes them back into worthless lumps before he goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 30 | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...most prosperous in the world. The cotton of the Chaco has received the highest recognition for quality, and during six months of 1934 the Mennonite colony alone exported 300,000 kilograms of cotton. Do these facts bear out your statement that Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over a worthless pestilential land? So much for the "green hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Left. By Inventor Thomas Alva Edison: a gross estate of $2,871,758. including worthless stock in 39 companies formed for Inventor Edison's research work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

Small-fry Bolivia and Paraguay started quarreling in 1879, went to war in 1932 over a worthless pestilential land lying between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY: Peace Without Victory | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...Indiscretion (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) investigates the marital mishaps of the Lenhart family, Robert (Paul Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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