Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weary closing days of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator...
...tried Columbia first in 1922. There she tinkered with an elementary course in photography mostly for credits. A transfer to the University of Michigan brought her closer to her real interests, biology and herpetology (reptiles). To carry on, she returned to work in a paradise of turtles, snakes, and caterpillars, Cleveland's museum of natural history. In 1927 Margaret Bourke-White was a Cornell graduate, an AOPi, and her interest, but not her affection for reptiles, had waned...
Last week Dr. Jean Broadhurst, 64, tall, stately, silver-haired professor of bacteriology at Columbia University, announced in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that by-products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...
Eventual result of this research may be a vaccine against measles. But there are immediate results which Columbia's efficient publicity department promptly caused Dr. Broadhurst to advocate. Said she: "Nurses and doctors will no longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present...
...this point President Roosevelt waved the white flag of truce in the War Against the Utilities (see col. 3). With utility shares in the van, prices once more turned upward. American Water Works jumped to $15.50, up $3; Electric Power & Light to $14.25, up $2; Columbia Gas & Electric to $10.50, up $2; North American to $23.50, up $3.50. Industrial and railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like...