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...born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas was called to the White House. When the President left town without making any appointments, the Douglas trial-balloon was still...
Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
Armstrong Cork Co., manufacturer of linoleum, insulation and bottle stoppers, offered employes a "makeup pay" plan to bring their wages up to 24 hours a week if actual employment falls below that minimum. Its workers, depending on length of service, will be able to draw 54 to 120 hours' pay to make up below-minimum employment. Armstrong's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., one of the more vociferous U. S. Big Businessmen, said the plan was "experimental," would be tried out at least through...
...present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke . . . described among many other things the little chambers or cells which he had seen with his simple microscope in sections of cork...