Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time a practical process for making flour without removing the germ. The trade was interested; present were seven foreign consuls, U. S. officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process; they interested Dan Brown, former Hearst circulation manager, who in turn organized Morris Mills, Inc. two years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism...
Fortnight ago, during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...hard-hitting group of officials of their own age. Lieutenant Governor (next year's candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana...
...Uncle Dan. To the general excitement and enthusiasm in Washington was added the voice of Secretary of Commerce "Uncle Dan" Roper. Recession psychology, said he, had now become "a shadow of its former self." Forgetting the President's metaphor and mixing his own still further, he added: "Economic skies are definitely clearing...
When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...