Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
...Engaged. Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 35, younger brother of King George; to Princess Frederika Luise, 20, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm of Doorn; in Athens. In July, Prince Paul caused a Government crisis by proclaiming his love for the commoner daughter of a wealthy Athens industrialist. His brother and Premier Metaxas put a stop...
Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
Liberal's Career. Many onetime admirers of Walter Lippmann will seriously question whether this conclusion is a fitting crown to a career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought...
...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...