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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather served to publicize a new word: humiture. The invention of a 38-year-old official of Manhattan's National City Bank, Osborne Fort Hevener, it was first used by his friend Frank L. Baldwin in the weather column of the Newark Evening News. Humiture is a combination of temperature and humidity, computed by adding the readings for both and dividing by two. Weathermen called it a "fool word" but according to Mr. Hevener (who last week escaped the humiture by motoring to Quebec) this figure "gives the man in the street a better index of the summertime torture...
...expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope Dare (real name: Rose...
...Aged 67, friend of farmers and Labor, celebrated for his independence and liberalism as publisher of the Parsons, Kans...
...will have as his ticket mate (for Governor) Lawyer Payne H. Ratner of Parsons, an energetic friend of Alf ("Fire Belly") Landon and Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. Senator McGill's mate will be Governor Walter Huxman, whose renomination was unopposed, whose campaigning ability is not superlative. To Democrats, the defeat of "intolerant" Mr. Winrod and nomination of able Mr. Reed may well presage Senator McGill's downfall...
When U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, an ace career diplomat, suddenly flew to Prague on what he carefully described as "just a holiday visit" to his friend U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia Wilbur J. Carr, Czechs were delighted...