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Died. Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison, 64 longtime abstractor of medical publications, foremost U. S. historian of Medicine, librarian of Johns Hopkins' Welch Medical Library; after an abdominal operation; in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...companies and 33 agents. One day last October, The Man Who Sued Coolidge tuned his radio to hear a speech on insurance by the former President of the U. S. His blood boiled when Mr. Coolidge nasally warned: "Beware of the so-called 'twister' and 'abstractor' or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company." Saying his reputation was injured, Agent Tebbetts filed a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Man Who Sued Coolidge | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Ottar Rygh must have had a good time playing with his porpoises while he fed them with irradiated narkotin [to demonstrate the storage possibilities of Vitamin C]. They make charming pets. However, as Ellis Parker Butler once informed his readers "Pigs is Pigs.'' Your abstractor is guilty of too literal translation from the German (or Norwegian) and has derived porpoises from Meerschweinchen, probably by way of sea pigs. This error is not unheard of, but should make the little guinea pig smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Transfer Talk | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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