Word: alva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisements of Manhattan's Sheffield Farms, a division of National Dairy Products Corp., Thomas Alva Edison lent his photograph and wrote: "The Almighty knew His business when He apportioned milk.* He is the best chemist we have...
...statue, wrote to the New York Times: "I want to take this opportunity to offer my thanks to Mr. Pulitzer for enabling me to again stand exalted-and scrubbed-above the grounds on Fifth Avenue, generously spurting precious, clear water-flush, in these times of dried-up prosperity." Thomas Alva Edison announced that he would give no more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked Yale's senior honor societies and urged his classmates to boycott them...
...More ominous was another German voice heard last week, that of Oswald Spengler, long worded philosopher, who has prognosticated The Decline of the West (1918). Said he at Munich, in a speech supposed to do honor to Thomas Alva Edison...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
Rolf McPherson, 18-year-old son, became engaged last week to one Lorna D. Smith, 19, of Alva, Okla...