Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor would be delighted to have Speaker Garner on the ticket with him. Convinced of Governor Roosevelt's good faith, the McAdoo visitors withdrew to execute the details of State caucuses. Mr. Howe informed Jim Farley, two flights up, of their candidate's prospective victory. Mr. Farley, who chews gum when happy, chewed gum happily. All that remained now was to notify Missouri, Illinois and Ohio to drop their favorite sons and get on the bandwagon...
...Approve a 2% excise tax on chewing gum, 2¼% on tires, 4% on inner tubes, special taxes on communications (exempt: news dispatches), real estate conveyances, stock & bond issues, safe deposit boxes, oil pipeline tolls...
...Chewing Gum...
From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
...angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench mouth. One is a wriggly spirillum, the other a cigar-shaped bacillus. They take hold anywhere in the throat. Commonest sites of infection are gums and tonsils. "Trench mouth" refers primarily to the gum condition. The ulcers of this disease and the membranes which cover them are deceptive. They may resemble diphtheria, septic sore throat, syphilis. Bacteriological examination quickly differentiates the four diseases...