Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heart of that measure was the provision whereby the President was empowered to license interstate industries and thus club recalcitrant minorities into good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial...
...Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...demonstrations follow: Dr. B. F. Skinner, recently elected Junior Fellow, will cenduct an experiment on the "Behavior of Rats"; Dr. Ernst Wolf. "The Visual Acuity of Bees"; John Ehrlich "The Epidemic Diseases of Beech Trees"; A. B. Hatch of the Harvard Forest, "Fungus Roots"; and D. W. West, professor of Botany, "Plant Pathology...
Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids...
...Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...