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...money as Little Elsie, and kept me there for 30 years. . , . Maybe G. H. Q. has been testing me. Wanting proof that no matter how high a command He bestowed upon me, I would still listen to orders. . . . This morning, Boss, I received my Community Chest notification and was sneering at its puniness when I got a snappy order. It's this: the end of summer will see an auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orders from G. H. Q. | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung a gas mask on his chest, a radio transmitter on his back. His crew lowered him and boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid out 500-ft. of flexible steel cable attached to the stern of the punt. Thus insured against immediate catastrophe, Mr. Brown sculled into the hot and humid black stink. Two hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sewer Inspection | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...keep, now represents 95% of the industry. On mine operators John Lewis riveted the "check-off"-that potent device whereby employers automatically deduct union dues from payrolls, turn the proceeds over to the union, which is thus kept strong and well-fed. Result: U.M.W. today has a war chest of some $2,000,000. From 1934 John Lewis can date his ambition to reorganize the traditionally craft-built A. F. of L. on industrial lines, like his U.M.W. After failing to get what he wanted from the A. F. of L.'s conventions, John Lewis resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm Over Steel | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Finally Britain's Wartime Prime Minis ter beat his chest with doubled fist and roared: "A few months ago 50 nations trusted Britain. The nations now will never trust this crowd! [gesturing at the Cabinet]. Tonight we have listened to a cowardly surrender and there on the Brit ish Government front bench are the cow ards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Capitulation | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Boston, when Surgeon Dennis Leo Black, 54, was rated perfect on a routine physical examination, he joked with his secretary, mockingly pounded his chest, dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Picket | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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