Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decorous concluding words were: "When this statement is ended my discussion of the question is closed. I believe the character and conduct of every public servant, great and small, should be subject to the constant scrutiny of the people. This must be true if a democracy serves its purpose. It is in this spirit that I now bid those who have been listening to me goodnight...
...Republican, a World War veteran (wounded and gassed). He holds degrees from Meadville Theological School, Columbia (cum magnis honoribus), Harvard and Yale Universities. A hardy perennial in Connecticut politics, he regularly runs for the House of Representatives, the Senate or the Governorship, thus far without success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer to the New York Times...
...year revealed that a complicated electrical device he and associates invented could tell when a woman's ovary had produced a full-grown ovum and thus put her in the essential preliminary state for having a baby (TIME, Nov. 23). Such foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom were Roman Catholics-who prefer to practice birth control...
...justice that he voluntarily burned his left hand (so badly that it had to be amputated) to expiate a blow he had struck a friend. His consciousness of civic responsibility was so strong that he went from Manhattan to Coatesville, Pa., on the anniversary of a lynching there, to conduct a public prayer meeting and so assuage his soul...
Before starting on his Western trip last week (see p. 11), the President announced that he had made plans for a new foundation which would be a national extension of Warm Springs. It will try to co-ordinate research on cause, cure and prevention; conduct a "broad-gauged educational campaign"; disseminate information to physicians. It will not be under the Public Health Service, will be financed, like Warm Springs, from the proceeds of the President's annual birthday balls...