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Unlike the great planters and white trash farther north, the white men of southeastern Alabama are neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Front Page Revolution | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

The clerk had barked out three or four of their names before drowsy Senators realized that a final vote on the tax bill was being called. Rousing, they passed it by 57 to 22, after two dull days of strictly routine exposition, strictly political debate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Price of Passage | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Like a drowsy bear awakening from winter slumber, the U. S. building industry last March stirred & stretched in the first warm days of spring. Last week in Washington the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a greater-than-seasonal gain in building permits for April compared to March. In value, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Statistic | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Early one morning Professional Tennist Vincent Richards was driving through The Bronx. Drowsy or blinded by headlights, he swerved into an electric light pole, clipped it off, demolished his car. Doctors said he had a broken right arm. a broken thigh, a dislocated hip which might end his career.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Early in February 1932 a young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Maguire Case | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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