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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong condemnation of faculty or student government control of college publications was a marked feature of the discussion of the problems of college journalism, which took place at the fourth annual congress of the National Student Federation of America which met toward the end of December," stated R. H. Field '26, Harvard representative at the convention, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently...
Synthetic Insulin. John J. Abel and H. Jensen of Johns Hopkins reported that they had reduced insulin (hormone which controls the body's sugar) to crystals of relatively simple chemical content. In the crystals they found 3% sulphur, considerable nitrogen, five different ameno-acids. They are working to identify remaining insulin crystal constituents. When that is done they feel that they can make synthetic insulin much cheaper than the present animal product. Insulin is one of the four hormones so far isolated. Of the others: adrenalin, thyroxin and pituitrin...
Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness...
Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...
Charles W. Nash (Nash) with his vice president, Milton H. Pettit, personally handed out $807,000 in Christmas bonus checks to his 12,000 employes...