Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Joseph ("Wee Joe") Devlin. 61, longtime Irish Nationalist leader, brilliant orator; of cancer of the throat; in Belfast...
...Dreams Farewell (by Hugh Stange; Frank Merlin, producer) deals, in the manner of Grand Hotel, with a group of passengers on board the S. S. Atlantia. They include: a dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain...
...high laced shoes. On New Year's Day the President with "great sorrow" accepted Secretary of the Treasury Woodin's second offer to resign his post. Near Tucson, Ariz., where none but his immediate family was admitted to his bedside, Mr. Woodin's throat ailment (reputedly cancer) had not sufficiently improved, he thought, to warrant a continuation of his leave of absence. In the White House Oval Room, where he had been sworn in as Undersecretary of the Treasury in November, Henry Morgenthau Jr., 42, was made a full-fledged Secretary of the Treasury in the presence...
...field of medicine no young Banting skyrocketed from obscurity with a cancer cure. Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan of Caltech received a Nobel ' Prize for his studies in the heredity of fruit flies, but Dr. Morgan's reward was the result of research carried on over a period of many years...
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...