Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard University (Negro, Washington, D. C.) Moorfield Storey, president of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds $15,000,000 too low a price...
Hearst Scripps-Howard Gannett New York (2) New York Ithaca...
High Liver. Drs. James Howard Means (Boston), Thomas Ordway (Albany), E. H. Heath Jr. (Baltimore), reported spectacular improvements in pernicious anemia patients on liver diets. But publicity means popularity. Healthy people are stuffing themselves with liver. Canny wholesalers profiteer. Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it. Dr. W. S. Middleton emphasized the fact that patients must keep on eating liver to prevent relapse; deplored its present high priced popularity...
...believe his inauguration to occur at an awkward time, and his responsibility onerous, he must have been reassured by the valedictory of the retiring N. E. L. A. president, Howard T. Sands of Manhattan: "Human frailty exists in our industry as in all others. In an investigation like this [by the Federal Trade Commission], involving every act of thousands of companies, hundreds of thousands of separate transactions ... for the last quarter of a century, it would be miraculous if there should not be found some instances of bad judgment, of the influence of greed, even perhaps of actual wrongdoing. Such...