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...another national election, the Republicans are announcing their own "brain trust" Republican college professors to show Democratic college professors they are wrong. Heading the new "trust" is Dr. Olin Glenn sazon, professor of business administration at Yale, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Olin once a broker at other times a lawyer is quick spoken and business like no dreamer to displace Republican Big Business aligned against the Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another "Trust" | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...wrong. I hate to say it because most of the time you are right. It was not "moneyed Jews" who did it. It was mostly the financial sacrifices of poor Jews who did it. The swamps were drained not by "moneyed Jews" but by "chaluzim" (pioneers) Jewish boys and girls who willingly gave themselves to the job while "moneyed Jews" called Zionists all sorts of names or ridiculed them at best. The gangsters of Germany may have changed the attitude of some "moneyed Jews" toward Palestine, but the fact remains that "moneyed Jews" stood aloof and many of them still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often be kept in children's institutions with immunity but if allowed in the community will apparently seek an adult partner on the street." -Drs. Lauretta Bender & Abraham Blau, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man's Madness | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Royal Academy show is most painstakingly reviewed each year by London's sartorial trade sheet, Tailor and Cutter, which last week gloomed over Sir William Rothenstein's slovenliness in painting a portrait of himself wearing a waistcoat buttoning the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portrait of England | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...happened, had only just happened"). In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes." He was preoccupied with women almost to "madness." In his pursuit of them he sometimes queered himself by saying the wrong thing. He once gloomily reported an unexpected failure, was told he must have been tactless, and admitted "I said I was clean and healthy and she could not do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Poet's Progress | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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