Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercle bacillus. In 1929 Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Institute, called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
...Christian Action" has compiled "Christian Indexes," now in circulation, which list "Christian" merchants in various neighborhoods. Reads one Index: "Christ Himself sponsored this little leaflet for your protection." Upon non-Christian shops, anti-Semitic stickers appear: BY BUYING HERE YOU HELP THE COMMUNISM (see cut). (Turned upside down, the head on the sticker resembles a plug-ugly "Red" in a Russian...
...kind of international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...
James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...
...little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...