Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past (1917-18) president of the American Medical Association, Professor Arthur Dean Bevan of the University of Chicago, recently told a subcommittee of the U. S. Senate that a great many doctors sign their liquor prescriptions in blank and sell them to druggists. That gives the druggists legal security to sell whiskey to any customer. If the doctor is called to account he dare not deny his complicity, sometimes goes to jail...
...great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as "percipient" seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while she felt the stuffed envelopes and perceived...
...union-it amounted to a reduction of nearly 50%. They refused, made counter demands for union recognition, reported for work one morning last week to find armed guards and company officials barring their way to the Century hangar. The officials handed them letters "accepting" their resignations and blank applications for work under the new wage scale, which the pilots rejected. Meanwhile Century's schedules from Chicago to Detroit and Cleveland were discontinued. The service to St. Louis was maintained by two '"strikebreaking" pilots. Alongside one of those planes flew another with a sign: "Century is unfair to pilots...
...came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced to the Japanese consular office, said that it was only a "demonstration" and that the shells fired on the town were blank ammunition...
...Garner of Texas also got his man on the R. F. C. directorate when President Hoover appointed Jesse Holman Jones, Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good friend is he of Governor Ross Sterling, whose private finances he now manages. New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch declined appointment to R. F. C. after its chairmanship went to Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Meyer, its presidency to Charles Gates Dawes. All week long President Hoover kept...