Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania suffered in two spots last week from too much faith in scientific preventive medicine. The trouble began 40 years ago when Sir Almroth Edward Wright, redoubtable young Irishman, made inoculation against typhoid fever a practicable medical procedure. U. S. sani- tarians were slow to pick up his methods. Consequently 20,738 U. S. soldiers, nearly one-fifth of those mobilized, suffered from typhoid-1,580 died- during the brief War with Spain. Simultaneously Dr. Wright, as a member of the India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every...
Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain...
...testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...
Housepainter John Kane took 67 years to get around to sending a real painting to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show in 1927. Today he is rated "one of the few great American painters of this age." Horny-handed, one-legged Irishman Kane never had an art lesson in his life. Painting pictures brought him large fame (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), little cash. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. paid less than $150 for one of his pictures (see p. 33). Kane loved Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh was proud of him. Seven years after his art career had been established, he died...
...Lang offered little light. His quarrel with Bowen Tufts dated back a dozen years to a personal feud arising out of a reorganization of Mr. Lang's real estate firm. He was questioned closely, absolved of all blame. Next Attorney General Paul A. Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that by last week only the barest outline of events was possible. Their...