Word: docs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left by the July Crash (TIME. July 31). Stock and grain prices rebounded, then shuffled off in a secondary reaction as exchange offi cials prepared for resumption of normal trading. The Chicago Board of Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into the full five-hour trading day, but in mercy to frazzled brokerage...
With the Symphony for the last two springs "Doc" Davison's singers have given Bach's great B Minor Mass. With the Vassar Glee Club in Poughkeepsie this spring they made an. evening of Brahms's German Requiem. Unlike most college glee club concerts, it was not a prelude to dancing. This week the Glee Club, again with the Requiem, is to help Dr. Koussevitzky celebrate the centenary of Brahms's birth...
...once, has been at Purdue since 1916; in the last seven years Purdue has won or tied for four championships, never been below second place till this year. This may make Piggy Lambert the ablest coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint dribbling, play smart defensive basketball with one guard always well behind the middle...
...large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them...
When a mysterious epidemic breaks out in town Doc Bull is annoyed because it interferes with more interesting pursuits, such as his annual rattlesnake hunt. His old aunt tells him flatly it is typhoid fever: she knows it by the smell. Sure enough, she is right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull...