Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover last week made his list of Big Names bigger. To his Organization for Unemployment relief under Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford, he added 19 important persons, brought the total to 84. Among those appointed last week were: James Rudolph Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President; Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland economist; Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker; Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific president; Stuart Cramer, North Carolina textile tycoon; W. H. Maytag, Iowa washing machine maker, and John Walter Drake, Detroit motormaker...
...increasing tariff. After the is landers had tasted economic freedom, a plebiscite would be held which would ac cept or reject complete political inde pendence. And Hoover. Not until Henry Lewis Stimson went to Manila in 1927 was much done to prepare the Philippines for independence. Governor General Leonard Wood ruled with a mailed fist, antagonized the natives, scoffed the idea of ever letting the islands go. Governor Stimson took a different tack, emphasized the necessity of economic growth before there could be any talk of freedom. Governor Davis has largely followed the Stimson policy, with good results. Local government...
...Barboursville, W. Va., President Leonard Riggleman of Morris Harvey College announced that farm produce would be accepted this year in lieu of cash for tuition...
...Died. Leonard Wood, 39, son of the late Major General Leonard Wood, of ''lobar pneumonia"; at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. His name on oil stock prospectuses without the Jr. led to investigation and interruption of his business activities six years...
...Binz, organic chemist, sent an iodine compound which he wanted Professor Lichtwitz to use on cows infected with streptococci. The compound was N-methyl-5-iodo-z-pyridon. Dr. Swick, inquisitive, knew about all the scientific work going on at Altona. With a retentive memory, he knew that Dr. Leonard George Rowntree of the Mayo Clinic in 1923 had illuminated the kidneys & ureters faintly with sodium iodide. The iodine created the opacity. Dr. Swick asked permission to try the Binz preparation on rabbits, secured the first sharp roentgenograms of kidneys...