Word: alva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaired by vice-President Reynolds, will be Nicholas Peterson, vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston, who has been compiling and discussing business statistics for leading publications. Others who will address the conference are T. H. Sanders, professor of Accounting at the School of Business Administration, and Alva F. Kindall, personnel manager of Filene...
...Charles Steinmetz. 5. Thomas Alva Edison...
...true, Chiropractor Alva B. Scott admitted with dignity, he had originated (and practiced) a new healing art he chose to call "aetheronics." It cured diseases by remote control. What was more, he had witnesses...
Friends and relatives of the late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
...William Alva Gifford has spent his past 15 summers playing golf and writing a book. At each summer's end he has come back to Montreal's Cooperating Theological Colleges (affiliated with McGill University), where for 30 years he has taught the history of religion. This year he can show the results of his 15-summers' labor: a 600-page volume, The Story of the Faith (Macmillan; $5). Published this month, it was sure to bring Professor Gifford many a letter of praise and protest...