Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Food & Drug Administration drew a long face last week as he rounded off his annual report to his chief, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Other members of Mr. Wallace's vast staff devise and distribute poisons to kill pests which infest fruits and vegetables. Mr. Campbell's grumps last week were largely due to the fact that his men must spend one-third of their time making sure that food raisers scrub from their harvests the insecticides other branches of the Department of Agriculture lavishly hand...
...Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...
...suggest that the letter expressing the views of the "voice of experience" shows perhaps too much experienced rhetorical mysticism to grapple with the realistic condition to which we drew attention. Far from criticizing the devotion and efficiency of Mr. Bingham and the staff of the H.A.A., we begged only to draw public attention toward an evil mentioned by us as "Big Stick Control...
...hear Dr. Parran on "Public Health Needs." Instead they got 15 minutes of orchestra music. Next day a few of them learned why. Dr. Parran had prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what the company considered good public taste? Indeed he would not. Thereupon CBS refused him a microphone. Next...
...description of a trip which he made through Asia last year formed the hitching post to which Professor Hopper connected his facts. From these facts, in turn, he drew conclusions, as in the above case of Japanese policy in China...