Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CARL APPONYI...
...National Association of Manufacturers quickly wired its approval of the plan. "Called in to help," a representative of Carl Byoir & Associates, Manhattan pressagents, began to send out press releases from a Troy hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students...
...most literate of U. S. women's clubs, Chicago's Friends of American Writers, gives an annual award to a Midwestern writer for work showing "originality of technique and value as a piece of Americana." Prizewinners in the past have included Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Vincent Sheean, some 16 other Midwesterners. Professional literary critics have no say in Friends of American Writers' selections. For its 1937 award of $1.000, the club's committee of 21 considered but passed over books by Ernest Hemingway, Dorothea Brande, Louis Bromfield, chose 30-year-old William Maxwell's They...
...music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent a lifetime on the beach of music's ocean brooding over, and trying to remedy, the mathematical inaccuracies of long-haired musicians. From spry, 72-year-old Seashore...
...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...