Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
Last week this adventure was on U. S. doctors' tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
Many doctors have tried to measure this giant for medical records. He resents them. Nonetheless last June he let Dr. Charles Dean Humberd measure him for the recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 17) was offered last week. Some observers at the Games guessed that the contestants took cocaine. Better informed observers guessed at benzedrine, a non-narcotic stimulant (TIME, Sept. 14) which reputable Dr. Morris Henry Nathanson of Los Angeles last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested would be an excellent aid to crammers, sprinters and others who need a sudden burst of energy. Last week's news from Berlin showed that the Olympic phenomena, at least in the case of the Germans, may have been due to nothing more subtle or deleterious...
...made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business management of the importance of labor relations...