Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
Died. Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, 65, famed Russian basso (Boris Godounov); of pernicious anemia; in Paris. A prodigious eater and drinker, he disliked Communism and his four estates in Russia were confiscated by the Soviet Government...
...worst wreck was the smashup of his first marriage which came when he had three children. A hard drinker, suspicious, temperamental, French became jealous of a young boarder, accused his wife of infidelity, made the boarder dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights...
Companies his results with isolated human cases, Dr. Drinker reasoned that the worker: who succumbed might have suffered unnoticeable liver changes from the fumes which made them easy victims of relatively innocuous diseases. To check this he took rats which had been exposed to the fumes and which had supposedly suffered liver injuries and administered a treatment known to attack that organ...
From the research Dr. Drinker has been able to set standards of air purity which can be maintained by ventilation and which will ensure freedom of the workers from possible injury. The simple compound, trichlornapthalene can be present up to 10 milksops per cubic meter of air without ill effects. The more complex compounds, tetrachlornaphthalene, pentachlornap thalene, hexachloranapthalene and chlorinated biphenyl, can be present at safely only to the extend of half a milligram per cubic meter...