Word: american
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same occasions put men in a downright sweat. This damp fact has been experimentally confirmed by Dr. James Daniel Hardy and his co-workers at Manhattan's Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. Last week they announced their findings-appropriately enough, at a symposium of temperature held by the American Institute of Physics...
Died. Major John Roy Lynch, 92, pre-Civil War slave, made major of the U. S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War by President McKinley, onetime Speaker of the House in Mississippi, three times a U. S. Congressman; in Chicago...
...Last week the Federal Council of Churches issued a special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...
...musicians to protect their work against unauthorized recording, was James John ("Jimmie") Walker, ex-Mayor of New York City, ex-composer (Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?). Keynoted talented Artist Walker: "This organization is . . . determined to eradicate the practice of highjacking the talents of American artists...
...world's No. 1 rayon maker, vast, British-owned American Viscose Corp., this week admitted what the trade had recently rumored: its new synthetic fiber-Vinyon-is now being produced in small quantities, already being sold in a few forms. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. makes the raw resin powder and Viscose turns it into yarn. This year's probable production...