Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloomfield. Under him Adventure maintains the Hoffman tradition: "A Man's Magazine. Clean and Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...
...Milwaukee, before the American Public Health Association, Professor John Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia declared: "Up to the present time between 10,000 and 12,000 children have been immunized with my vaccine [virus weakened with a castor oil derivative]. No case receiving the full three doses has developed poliomyelitis. However, eight patients who had only one or two doses did contract the disease, indicating what I have long believed, that one or two vaccinations are insufficient...
That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...
...partisans last week when King George conferred explicitly on the Italo-Ethiopian war with his Ministers at Buckingham Palace (see p. 23) and Edward of Wales emulated his grandsire Edward VII by having Premier Pierre Laval to luncheon on the crisis at Britain's Paris Embassy. Necessarily President Albert Lebrun then had H. R. H. to luncheon and the persuasive charm of Britain's "Empire Salesman" was fresh in the mind of the President of France when he summoned the French Cabinet to hear Premier Laval expose the policy he would pursue next day in the Council...
...volumes concerning culture of the Germanic countries. Among the treasures of the library is an illustrated first edition of Haus Sachs, entitled the "Wittenburg Nightingale." This is a Protestant poem which was published in 1523, written to be a veiled attack on Catholicism. There is also a volume of Albert Durer's writings which contains several of his famous wood-cuts...