Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office in his State") and later elected to the U. S. Senate...
...London meeting to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...
...sued Actor Marshall and his employers. Warner Brothers, for $1,000,000 damages. Actor Marshall was a model Equity member from 1913 until suspended last June for signing his non-Equity contract. Equity charged that he had violated the agreement of June 5, asked for temporary restraining orders and, later, permanent injunctions to prevent Actor Marshall from working with Warner Brothers without Equity sanction. The damages were asked for an interview, reputedly prepared by Actor Marshall and the Warner Brothers, in which the actor denounced Equity, shook the morale of its members...
...Later Dr. Theobald Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute, found that if a little diphtheria toxin were added to antitoxin the mixture would immunize animals against the disease. At once Dr. William Hallock Park, director of New York City's health department laboratories, and his associate, the late Dr. Abraham Zingher, began to immunize children with the toxin-antitoxin mixture. That mixture is what the "healthmobiles" were administering last week. Three to six months are necessary before immunity is established...
...years ago in Boston, the son of Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...