Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earnest Elmo Calkins, 63, famed advertising expert, retired as president of Calkins & Holden, Inc. ''because I have become so deaf that I cannot properly perform the duties of an advertising agent, the most important of which is contact with clients." Mr. Calkins won the Edward Bok gold medal in 1925 for distinguished personal service in advertising "in recognition of his pioneering efforts in raising the standards both of the planning and execution of advertising." His book, Consumer Engineering: A New Technique for Property, will be published this autumn and in future he will devote more time to writing...
...full moon in Cambridge is like a campaign speech of "Fighting Bob" La Follette's before a group of deaf mutes. In the country there is some raison d'etre for a moon. Mountains, valleys, and tall timber are creatures of the night. They take on new lustre and majesty in cool October moonlight, and the awkwardness of day is softened. There have been, there are, and there will be many apostles of the moon. An Emperor or of Rome, one Caligula, a mad wight, once paid court and married her. He died soon after, broken hearted and without...
...expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant than a heterogeny of accents and, in one scene, the gingerly demeanor toward tennis rackets that is universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance of her short but competent career. Forlorn but hardboiled, she remains plausible even when she has hysterics; in the scene with the soldier's mother, she is curt...
...farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand to 30,000 acres. He believes that intensive cultivation and proper use of mechanical equipment should produce wheat...
...subnormal. In elementary schools 450,000 are mentally retarded, but only 60,000 are cared for in special classes; 675,000 present behavior problems, but only 10,000 are in special schools, 50,000 are partly blind, only 5,000 are provided for. There are but 18,coo deaf or partly deaf children attended to out of a total 3,000,000. (Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools...