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The change in the regulations is intended to prevent the Hygiene Department from having to consider so many unnecessary pleas. "We cannot accept responsibility for so many students being absent from their Exams," Dr. Bock said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAK, LATE EXAM EXCUSES END WITH NEW REGULATION | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

Dr. Russell's trial made its Philadelphia debut at Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling's Baptist Temple, drew a crowd of 3,500. The jurists who presided were George A. Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Alcohol's Trial | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Mrs. McCarthy indicated that sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Finishing Schools | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Meanwhile with no trucks to cart the goods away from the waterfront, inbound cargoes piled up on the San Francisco docks. Warehousemen and longshoremen continued to work but jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Showdown | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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