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Nervous, quick, wary, intolerant, Harry Bridges is scornful of the press, both Right and Left. Even when cornered for an interview, he ignores any questions which he does not choose to answer, punctuates his own points with jerks of his knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: C.I.O. to Sea | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Two years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sea Burial | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Last week in Milwaukee a Federal District Court judge signed his name to an opinion in accounting proceedings in some patent infringement suits which brought sewage disposal smack into the dinner-table conversation of every taxpayer in the city. To Activated Sludge, Inc., which had sued the City of Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Activated Sludge, Inc. | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Poignantly for Milwaukee's taxpayers, Milwaukee might once have purchased rights to the Activated Sludge patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Activated Sludge, Inc. | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Soft-voiced Mr. White, now an instructor in ethics at Howard, was outraged when he found himself publicized as an intermediary in procuring a harem wife from among Alabama womanhood, promptly sued the Post for $100,000, claiming he had been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sheik's Friend | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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