Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungary, Esthonia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Latvia he has an absolute match monopoly, guaranteed by the governments concerned in return for money loaned them by Herr Kreuger. From the standpoint of a government that is not too proud to monopolize, business done with Herr Kreuger is good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash and then repays the loan by a tax on matches. As for the match-users, they get excellent matches and the price is fixed by an agreement between Herr Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France...
...Quaker merchant of Baltimore. Hopkins left instructions for the development of first a hospital, then a medical school. The University's first president, Daniel Colt Oilman, went to Europe looking for a man who would be his first pathologist. European, savants told him to return to Manhattan and get William Henry Welch who, while practicing medicine there in a modest way, had become the U. S.'s outstanding pathologist. Dr. Welch went to Johns Hopkins in 1884 and inaugurated the first chair of pathology in America. When Johns Hopkins Hospital opened just 40 years ago, Dr. Welch...
Surgeons, anesthetists and hospital managers met in Chicago last week to study, discuss, argue, play and be seen. Being seen was important, for the only ways in which a professional man can spread his reputation is by getting research published, demonstrating at a clinic, having his patients gossip about his work, and presenting himself to his colleagues for personal study. So some 3,000 men and a few women took time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners...
Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
...world's record for ladies. Young John Straley of Paulding, Ohio, said to Umpire Clyde Crone what many sandlot players often long to say to umpires. With a quick fist Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last week, by request...