Word: deforest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington Novel began after the Civil War as nothing more than a satirical yarn told by the likes of John William DeForest and Mark Twain. Despite the fact that the Federal Government had already begun to slip out of the hands of people--something that would-be Ralph Nadars like Francis Adams knew only too well--Americans still chose to treat their national leaders as if they were only extensions of their second-rate counterparts back home. But, during this century, Washington has grown so complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan...
...Federal agents in Albany. N.Y. seized 5,247 cases of "Honegar," a honey-and-vinegar preparation promoted as a traditional Vermont remedy by Dr. DeForest Clinton Jarvis, bestselling author of Folk Medicine (TIME, Dec. 28). Said U.S. Attorney Theodore F. Bowes: the stuff is touted as good for about 35 ailments, ranging from arthritis to chicken pox, but cannot be sold in interstate commerce "until the label tells how to use the product to get the cures claimed...
...Chicago TV Manufacturer Ulises A. Sanabria (deForest receivers) took an ad in the Sun-Times to say that it is "unAmerican and unsportsmanlike" for other set manufacturers to market remote control gadgets that make it easy for a TV viewer to kill the sound when a commercial goes on the air (some 2,500,000 "blab-offs" are now in operation in the U.S.). Adding that the public ought to be grateful to the advertisers who pay for the shows, Sanabria included coupons for people to send to their Congressmen, urging that all remote control cutoffs be outlawed...