Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the rail security issue from the investor's angle Edward Dickinson Duffield, big-bodied president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, was placed on the stand by the carriers. As chairman of the Emergency Committee on Railroad Investments of Life Insurance Companies and Mutual Savings Banks, he said he spoke for 50,000,000 policy holders and 13,000,000 depositors whose institutions held about one third of the roads' $10,783,000,000 outstanding bonds. Pointing to the reduced margin of safety between earnings and fixed charges, Mr. Duffield declared: "If the credit of the roads...
...children, David Turner, 13, of Montgomery, Ala., and Jane Dickinson, 14, of Keene, N. H., had learned more than the others. For doing so, each got a wrist watch. The rest had learned enough to make the original sponsors of the test, 25 public school pedagogs from large U. S. cities, pass a resolution: "We endorse the experiment in sound pictures and urge that additional facilities be supplied for such instructional methods as rapidly as possible...
Unhappy Wives stimulated Robert Latou Dickinson, Manhattan gynecologist, to study marital discontent. He asked 1,000 married women certain impudent questions. As women will, they answered him. The women were "what may be called the cultural type . . . urban, of good family background, married to professional men of moderate income [e. g. physicians], each with one or two children. They were considered socially normal in the ordinary relationships of work and life...
...relatives-in-law, money, children (but most declared they wanted more), and on housekeeping. Some had had "a shock in childhood related to the sex side of life." But most of all, they complained of unsatisfactory marital sex-life, often due to faulty courtship of husbands. Said Dr. Dickinson: "Teaching men and women the medical art of love is one of the most important steps toward preventive medicine and better social adjustments...
...Dickinson College (Carlisle...