Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given his first try at the pivot position in signal practice on Friday, and on Saturday he saw considerable service as center on team B in the scrimmage. Judging from his showing, it is not unreasonable to expect that he will be permanently transferred to his new post to help solve the center problem...
Ringworm is caught at swimming pools, golf clubs, athletic clubs-wherever people use common dressing rooms. Wearing can vas slippers at such places will help prevent infection, as will the strict use of personal soaps and towels. Writes Surgeon General Gumming: "Probably the general tendency of the American public to spend a certain amount of time in hotels is largely responsible for the increase of this disease. There is no good proof that water in swimming pools is in any way responsible...
...vacillations of our own membership. I was promised complete support of the independent producers. They asked me to help them. They admired me as a man and as a Jew. They were proud of me because I had brought Henry Ford to his knees before them (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante...
County bank. Later they progressed to Des Moines, to Chicago. Banker Stevens began his career in a Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president...
...last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...