Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn, still well within Earth's gravitational pull and far from Europe, his fuel line broke and he pancaked into the Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York...
Special hospitals for Negro victims of T. B. are few and far between. Last winter the Federal Government gave Washington's Howard University for Negroes (Washington, D. C. is the Negro Paris) a WPA grant of $600,000 to build a T. B. clinic and hospital. Heartened by this recognition, scholarly Dr. Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams, dean of Howard's medical school, promptly called a meeting of 50 black and white tuberculosis experts. Last week at Howard he welcomed the delegates to the First Annual Conference of Negro Tuberculosis workers...
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when...
...lectured against New Deal finance during four years as vice president and director of American Cyanamid Corp., then in December 1937 he resigned to become principal of McGill University in Canada. His administration was successful, but not altogether happy for Lew Douglas. He was too far from the U. S. political-economic scene. Last week he was offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius...
...Since the Chicago Stock Exchange adopted a plan to have a paid president in March 1938, conservative and progressive factions have jockeyed for power. Progressive President Thaddeus R. ("Brick") Benson, who pushed through the reorganization, was the man most mentioned for the paid presidency. He went so far as to dissolve his firm, presumably because the new constitution provided that the president must have no business interest in the exchange. But soon after the reorganization Conservative Arthur Betts was named chairman and president pro tern. For a year Chicago waited to see who would get the permanent post. Last week...