Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME of May 4, subject, The Presidency, referring to the attendance of the President of the U. S. and Mrs. Hoover at the Cape Henry Pilgrimage, extract, "President Hoover got soaked...
...Charles S. Ryckman of the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune, $500 for the year's best editorial: "The Gentleman from Nebraska," an appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State...
...dispute .about the incipient gigantism of 235-lb., 6-ft., 14-year-old Adolph Roome (TIME, April 6). Last fortnight Judge Roth assured large Adolph's mother that her onetime husband, Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr. would not be allowed to "experiment'' on Adolph with pituitary extract. Said the Judge then: "The boy is not a guinea pig.'' But last week, Dr. Roome having shown that pituitary extract treatments are now well understood and having pleaded again that he simply wanted to save his son from being a physical monstrosity, Judge Roth decided...
...Adolph Edward Roome Jr., his father, corpulent Los Angeles physician, who wanted to administer pituitary extract to make his son stop growing...
...advertisements. Salary-purchasers claim they do not lend money, but pay $50 for a $55 pay check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments of $10 a month for years. If the borrower complains they threaten to tell his employer and family, to let all the neighbors know. Most distasteful angle to this busi- ness is that the same victims are trapped again & again. Bankruptcies among families of small means often show that...