Word: franticness
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...Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper advertising propaganda fought propaganda. The Hearst Press turned against the bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill...
Last week in response to Power's frantic advertisements, leaflets, letters and personal canvassing, utilities investors were obediently showering telegrams and letters by the thousands on their Representatives. Under Philip H. Gadsdeh, chairman of the Committee of Public Utility Executives, Power had put a small army in the field at Washington. Scripps-Howard Correspondent Ruth Finney reported that the Power lobby (600) outnumbered Congress (527). Between holding companies battling for life and President Roosevelt battling for principle it was to be a finish fight...
...Montreal wrestling with a frantic system of taxation...
Shortly after that first frantic visit to the Rockefeller Institute Colonel Lindbergh went secretly to work there as a biomechanical assistant to Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel. Dr. Carrel was trying to keep human organs alive for long periods so that physiologists could study their reactions piecemeal. For more than 100 years physiologists had tried to do so, with no real success, ever since Frenchman Julien-Jean-Cesar Legallois (1770-1814) predicted: "If one could substitute for the heart a kind of injection ... of arterial blood, either natural or artificially made . . . one would succeed easily in maintaining alive indefinitely any part...
...that steamed and sizzled on the running board, had been abandoned. Colonel Christmas of the Indian Civil Service had organized the trip because he made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting a death grip on the steering wheel, gritting his teeth, while he raced along at 20 m. p. h. Swanky Mrs. Christmas puzzled Traveler Balfour: in a great hurry...