Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...
Byfield. Although his four hotels are in receivership Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield is today Chicago's most famed hotel keeper. A shrewd and amusing businessman whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims...
...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 decrees, and the remainder of the law hardly more than a pious expression of policy which any concern could defy with impunity...
...Hert. Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky. From New York came Bernard Baruch, Forbes Morgan, onetime Sheriff Tom Farley. Boss John F. Curry, who made his own bets. Boss John McCooey who tried to pick a "daily double." From Washington came Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Postmaster General James A. Farley who called the gathering "the flower of Democracy," presented the gold trophy to Col. Bradley...
...friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought to be a rare Eastern disease; in London. This month...