Word: joseph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOSEPH C. DUVAL...
...copies, a bare 300,000 less than London's record-holding News of the world.* The News employs 3,500 people, pays them $8,000,000 a year. Its annual profit is usually estimated at around $5,000,000. Its fabulous success is due almost entirely to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's unique and highly individualistic application of a saying of Abraham Lincoln's, the last six words of which are chiseled across the front of the $10,700,000 News building: "God must have loved the common people because HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM...
...Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune and Joe Patterson did not get along with his Cousin Bertie much better than...
Many a textbook since then has honored Schleiden and Schwann as the first to postulate that the cell is a fundamental unit of life. Some time ago Joseph Meyer, a consultant at the Library of Congress, conceived the idea of a great centenary celebration in honor of Schleiden and Schwann and of the discovery of the cell theory in 1839. Hence Stanford's symposium...
...Duke fortune has not bought intellectual distinction for the University. Its best known product: Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's experiments on ESP ("extra-sensory perception"-clairvoyance and telepathy). Of his faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner...