Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual conventions of the A. F. of L., an amalgamation of 3,000,000 assorted trade unionists who attempt to speak for all U. S. Labor, are seldom either successful or rich in accomplishment. Prime reason is that the Federation has for the past decade tried vainly to digest a vast hodge-podge of fundamental contradictions, with the result that most of its public acts belch forth in a fantastic vapor of inconsistency, incoherence, ineffectually. This dyspepsia gets the Federation into many an impolite predicament, not the least embarrassing of which occurred early at last week's seaside gathering...
...assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus (514 B.C.) and were in turn put to death?ED. **TIME, LETTERS, FORTUNE, Reader's Digest, House & Garden, Better Homes & Gardens, McCall's, Pathfinder, Literary Digest, New Yorker, Popular Science. ?Apparently of the "white collar" class?$5,000 a year...
Such journalism on the part of the World-Telegram was a direct development of an article called "?And Sudden Death" by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas published in the August issue of Reader's Digest (TIME, Aug. 12). Using that article's brutally realistic method of shocking motorists into a vivid realization of the physical horror of a bad automobile wreck, the World-Telegram thus became the first important daily to put its newscolumns into the amazing safety crusade which "?And Sudden Death" started two months...
Since its publication Reader's Digest has sold more than 1,500,000 reprints of the Furnas article. Magazines, newspapers, the radio have quoted it. Judges have read it aloud to traffic offenders, made them write it longhand or recite it. Wyoming sends it with every set of license plates. The Port of New York Authority gives it to all motorists using the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge. Copies of it accompany all official correspondence of the Province of Ontario...
...When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby shark was in turn gulped down by an oversize tiger shark. By final coincidence the tiger shark happened to be caught and so roughly handled on its way to the aquarium that its stomach turned before it had quite digested the baby shark, thus spewing up Smith...