Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, City Manager Henry F. McElroy whose daughter was kidnapped two years ago (TIME. July 24, 1933 et seq) sneered: "It is an act of cowardice and the country would be better off without him if such is true. I cannot believe it." LL S, v. England. United Press reminded its readers that Motormen Errett Lobban Cord and Horace E. Dodge, also threatened by kidnappers, had taken their children to England without fanfare. Scripps-Howard newspapers distinguished themselves with an editorial from headquarters concerning the splendid kidnapcase record of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation (TIME...
...week staged a new and surprising session of their long extended civil war. Last autumn Director George S. Kemp of Richmond brough about a complete management turnover with a new president, a new vice president and a new directorate, of which he was himself a member (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.) In Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they got rid of Kemp-President F. Swift Gibson, Kemp...
...acre farm at Orange Park Fla. There Mona, 21, gave birth to the only known pair of anthropoid twins a male and a female (TIME, June ii 1934). There Gua, 7½-months, proved herself smarter in many respects than Donald Kellogg, 10 months (TIME. June 19 1933 et ante). There chimpanzees have proved that, although they cannot talk they can think and make rational decisions, that their intelligence and behavior are akin to human intelligence and behavior...
From Washington Senior Surgeon James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service raised a loud clamor against the infantile paralysis vaccines developed in Manhattan by Drs. William Hallock Park & Maurice Brodie, in Philadelphia by Dr. John Kolmer (TIME, July 16, 1934 et seq.). Twelve children who received one or the other of the vaccines last summer rapidly contracted the disease. Of the twelve, six died. Said Dr. Leake: "I feel that the fact we found fatalities makes it advisable that we warn the public and physicians...
...Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than run-of-the-mine romanticists like Walter Scott, Charles Reade et al. Lion Feuchtwanger's second volume on the Jewish Historian Josephus does not let his colleagues' standard down...