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Ohio's Governor White, refusing to declare a bank holiday, prepared legislation to hold withdrawals down to the level of the liquid assets. On his own hook the Mayor of Dayton ordered a three-day moratorium. In Cleveland, Akron, Lima, Canton, and many a smaller city, bankers agreed among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Close to Bottom | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

*Witness Brush was, of course, speaking figuratively. His mind was dimly echoing a name once famed in Chicago, "Heinie Keboobler." That was the name of two famed oldtime saloons -one on Quincy Street, one on South State. Both were full of practical-joking devices-stairways which suddenly folded under you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Hunt (Cont'd) | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Ever since the Board declared it would not peg prices for the 1931 wheat crop, its 1930 holdings have threatened the market with a selling avalanche. What, became the big wheat question, did the Farm Board propose to do with its supply? Hold it off the market? Dump it at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Wheat Moratorium | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

(3 of 5) Cyril Argentine Alington, 59, headmaster of Eton since 1916. Tall, personable, he is an Oxonian, onetime (1908-16) headmaster of Shrewsbury School, chaplain since 1921 to King George V. To carry on at Eton he refused the deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beside Windsor | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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