Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...located from the air. I suggested this to the Secretary of War, who referred it to the Chief of the Panama Canal Office, Washington, who said the "suggestion was interesting and would be brought to the attention of the proper officials for consideration." . . . H. C. CLARK Delaware City, Del...
...exposed heart was a case of rare ectopia cordis, of which 28 cases have been recorded since 1706. The deformity may be caused by failure of embryonic chest cells to fuse in the middle. Since Maria's heart was unprotected by a membrane, Dr. Guillermo del Castillo carefully covered it with a thin stemless cocktail glass, and placed the baby, who was otherwise normal, in an incubator...
Birthdays. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...