Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miscellany. And then there were a great number of miscellaneous items: nasal sinuses displayed by Warren Beagle Davis of Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure...
Squawks from U. S. Senators in Washington greeted last week the budget speech to Canada's House of Commons made by Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious Dominion Premier & Finance Minister. At the last election Canadians gave Mr. Bennett a mandate to up their tariffs in Uncle Sam's face. Last week Conservative Bennett upped high, upped quick...
...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
George Monroe Moffett was made president of Corn Products Refining Co,, succeeding the late Edward Thomas Bedford (TIME, June 1). George Monroe Moffett was previously Corn Products' vice president. He is a director of Chase National Bank and many industrial companies...
...Bedford's hair is grey, so is his mustache. The walls of his office are covered with pictures of his racing yachts and his horses. But the most prominent picture on his walls is one of his father. Many times they took an early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products...