Word: carles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been unable to get medical faculties and facilities to teach them all that the twelve examining boards want them to know. There, his Commission of Graduate Medical Education, formed last December, impatient with the slow progress made by the A. M. A., appointed Wisconsin General Hospital Superintendent Robin Carl Buerki, onetime president of the American Hospital Association, to get educators and hospital administrators to provide the higher medical learning required. Dr. Buerki promised to do the job by 1942 if the regents of the University of Wisconsin, which controls Wisconsin General, gave him leave of absence...
Latest gadget was put on sale in Chicago last week when veteran dance-band Maestro Carl Rupp, abetted by hopeful piano dealers, introduced his Piano Master. Rupp's ingenious contraption makes playing a tune like Annie Laurie almost as simple as swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees...
...Council for the Prevention of War, was the first opponent of the Big Navy bill heard by the Committee. The N. C. P. W. takes in about $150,000 a year, spends some of it trying to defeat "strong defense" advocates for Congress, including the Committee's Chairman Carl Vinson, who introduced the Big Navy bill. Said Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building program on the part of the United States will intensify...
...Stanford team, composed of Gerald Marcus '38, chairman of the Peace Committee at Stanford and Carl Diesenroth '38, former champion debater in the Pasadena Junior College, claimed that compulsory arbitration was a real necessity and that it could be enforced...
Available to President Roosevelt last week were two suggestions on how to check depression. Suggested Economist Carl H. Henrikson, assistant dean of the Business School of the University of Chicago, to Philadelphia Rotarians: "If all economists in the world were laid on their faces, it would be a good thing for business." Suggested cantaloupe-faced Philosopher Will Durant, to Californians: "Raise more fruit and less nuts...