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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The co-operation that the Press gives a Senate investigation is usually even greater than it receives. In the committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Investigation by Headlines | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Louis Miller, 6, is the pride of University of Pennsylvania psychologists because of his speed in solving arithmetical problems in his head. To the Press, however, he is the Philadelphia Pinochle Prodigy. Playing three-handed pinochle with a sly expression which makes him look like Jackie Searl, Prodigy Miller puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigious Crop | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Pious Spaniards have long believed that few if any unbelievers are keen enough to outsmart a Jesuit. Last week their belief became a profound conviction. A Madrid court was asked to believe that in 1931 the Spanish Jesuits sold their $520,000 national headquarters in Madrid for $485 to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: $520,000 for $485 | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

The unhappy condition of the Boston Braves baseball team is a matter of long standing. For a decade its players have felt that they enjoyed a banner year when they finished in the first division. Last year the club's treasury showed a serious deficit. This year, the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Bravery | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

She is in her late 20's, plump, moderately pretty. Though it is her third trip to New York and she will not be taken in by the old trade wheeze about "going down to Canal Street to see the canal,"* she is excited, brings along too many clothes...

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

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