Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcing that he would appeal John Hunt revealed that he had spent a night in jail trying to convert his cellmate Robert S. James, a barber awaiting execution for drowning his wife after trying to murder her with a rattlesnake. Prisoner Hunt found Prisoner James "receptive...
...anxieties of druggists who fear that doctors will take control of the $575,000,000 contraceptive business away from them, Mrs. Sanger, exultantly crying, "Here comes the future full of hope and challenge," plans to intensify the work of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan, convert the rest of the world to Birth Control...
...boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made Minister to Austria. Two years later Mr. Guffey & friends called back Minister...
Other news concerning the growth of plants came last week from Harvard University, which announced receipt of a gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...
...Although the time when veterans might convert their Wartime insurance from "term" to "regular" was supposed to have expired in 1927, Congress thrice extended the time for a total of ten years. Last week the President stepped in and vetoed a bill which would have extended the period a fourth time, thereby automatically bringing the conversion period to an end June 2. Promptly this week the House overrode the veto 368-10-13, the Senate...