Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Letters in your issue of Dec. 3. one Maurice S. Sheehy, Ph. D., Director, Survey Council, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., nominates for "Man of the Year" our eminent Postmaster General, the Honorable James A. Farley...
...wish to correct a very serious error in your article in this week's TIME [Dec. 3] concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...
...TIME, Dec. 10 you tell a very interesting story of the attempt to loot the Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., of Springfield, Ill. You mention the name of the company once but do not name the city of its location; viz., Springfield, Ill. You refer to it later as "Lincoln Life" and several times as "Lincoln." The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., which I organized and of which I have always been the head, has been in business 29 years, and now is 18th in the entire U. S. for volume of insurance in force. . . . Strong...
...months Mrs. Julie Neumann, director of Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School, had been bursting with a great secret. Last fortnight when she read of "K," the prodigy with an I. Q. of 196 discovered by the College of the City of New York (TIME, Dec. 3), she could contain herself no longer, revealed that one of her pupils, "X," had been graded 230. But just as jealous as Mrs. Neumann was Mrs. Winifred Travis, chairman of the Parents' Association of Public School 217. X, she declared, had been at the Ethical Culture School only three months, was really...