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Eight times he ran for Congress on a platform of Justice-for-Navyites, once received as many as 776 votes. Five times a bill to pay the claims was passed by Senate or House, but never by both. One by one the claimants died off, but Lawyer Mann's obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Lobby Hobby | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Mad Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Wanted: Roses. Terming the Tennessee Valley Authority a "monstrous" project and President Roosevelt's utility ideas "an obsession," the hulking head of Public Service of New Jersey continued: "Since the present national Administration was inducted . . . there has been launched by it against this industry the most devastating and destructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Powermen to Arms | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

For his birthday his daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Statistician | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Psychasthenia. This is the only type of neurosis which shows no physical symptoms. The victim is ridden by an obsession of which he is aware but which he cannot control; otherwise he can think clearly. Some psychasthenics cannot avoid stepping on the cracks of sidewalks or washing their hands every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nervous Breakdown | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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