Word: cam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also on the staff are Public Utilities Expert Cam Shalton, Sleuth John T. Rogers (who in 1931 got a bonus of more than $6,000 for solving the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly Jr.), Political Commentator Curtis Belts. When a big story breaks the Post-Dispatch sends so many men out to cover it, that rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among...
Stanton Whitney, Jr. 34, of Red Bank, N. J., has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cam- bridge, The scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied. Whitney prepared at Groton, He has been on the University Football Team, and the University Wresting Team; has been captain of the University Rugby Team, holder of a John Harvard Scholarship, vice-president of his Junior Class and a member of the Permanent Class Committee. His field...
...coming governor relies largely on the current taste for catchy abbreviations, with its NRA and RFC and OWA and CCC, to put over his election. His plan is the EPIC plan--End Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect...
...hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled by a 52-lobe irregular cam which is designed to deal a pack into hands of the ideal random type in four seconds...
...President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member of the first Federal Reserve Board. James first saw light in Germany 36 years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank...