Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
...worker and since 1920 a wheelmare for New Jersey's Democratic Boss Frank Hague. In Congress since 1925, she has got along well with her party because "I always take the recommendation of county leaders as to the fitness of a man or woman for a job." Her formula for getting along with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts' Congressman William Patrick Connery Jr., Mrs. Norton was chairwoman of the House...
...every change in the nature of medical practice which breaks down this relationship tends to lower the quality of medical service. It is characteristic of medicine, therefore, that it is practiced as an art and as a science, without any reference to hours of work or any fixed formula for its administration. These are the characteristics of the profession and the question which we must answer for ourselves and for the people is simply the question as to whether medicine shall remain a profession or become a trade...
...technical aspects of traffic accidents and congestions, for a period of more than ten years, it recognizes that neither it nor--the other agencies working upon the situation have done more than scratch the surface. It is true, however, that there is now available a relatively simple formula of education, enforcement and engineering which, properly applied by training personnel, can invariably reduce traffic accidents and increase traffic efficiency...
Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only...