Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In his Washington, D. C., laboratory Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service allowed himself to be bitten by a baby California tick, promptly contracted relapsing fever, a highly dangerous disease accompanied by high temperatures, aching joints. Dr. Francis had previously infected himself with tularemia ("rabbit fevers...
Adopting a report on the Economic Order on which labored, among others, pious Manhattan Merchant James Milliken Speers (McCutcheon's store), Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre and Charles Phelps Taft II, lately one of President Roosevelt's steel mediators, the conference was able to agree that...
¶ Elected to that august senior society of Big Business, the board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on...
Famed as the most harmonious commission in Washington, the five commissioners lean heavily on such loyal staff members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief...
To 5,000 members of the California Townsend Club, Founder Francis Everett Townsend wailed: "I was offered $200 a month bribe for the rest of my life to lay off the Townsend Plan. But I'm going to keep on fighting . . . until I die."