Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
...landing quiet-voiced Professor Piston where he is today. At 26, a married man with very little in the way of a formal education, he managed to get enrolled at Harvard, worked his way through, graduated summa cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain. A winner of the John Knowles Paine Fellowship, he was sent to Paris for two years to study with famed Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (TIME...
...selling its time to advertisers. Last year potent Mr. Aylesworth left NBC to sell national advertising space in Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He did the job so well that Roy W. Howard last week rewarded him with the publishership of the New York World-Telegram, top unit in the chain. Mr. Howard kept the editor's job; Mr. Aylesworth's job: sales...
First report was that the cancer medicine which Dr. Neal used was an enzyme solution called "Ensol," invented and patented by Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell of Kingston, Ontario (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935). This started a chain of misunderstandings. Dr. Connell,who has distributed 125,000 bottles of "Ensol" promptly excused himself, because he had never before had an accident. "I am convinced," he announced, "that one bottle became contaminated after it left Kingston." Then investigators of the U. S. Food & Drug Administration, who, fearing another sulfanilamide catastrophe (see above), had ganged up on Dr. Neal, announced that the deadly...
...ocean's floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western Union has been developing for the past three years. The steel "plow" weighs ten tons, is ten feet long, four feet wide, three feet high, resembles a gigantic stone boat. Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep...