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...Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...South Dartmouth, Mass. He maintained a palatial retreat on Star Island near Miami Beach and a penthouse atop the swank Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in Manhattan. He was at Lake Placid for his health last June. At the time of his death he had a blank will form in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...girls, a gigolo and four old women showing the Count how much money they had. Royalty and the old women did the betting: the gigolo tried to explain things for the deb; Madame Blouse's girl kept dropping things; and I giggled my only ten francs in my pocket...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month for two months. As he sped back to Michigan last week with the coal settlement in his pocket, Leader Lewis and U. M. W. had once again given public and employers an object lesson in industrial order, furnished unruly new automobile unionists (see p. 20) and millions of workers whom he hopes still to organize, with impressive proof of the gains to be won under his leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pay Up, Price Up | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

With more than one-half of the West Coast's paper business in its pocket, with ten billion feet of reserve pulpwood, with annual capacity of 485,000 tons of paper and vast amounts of boxboard, realigned Crown Zellerbach, like International Paper & Power, is ready-set to cash in on the Boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Paper Progress | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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