Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt, en route east after a triumphal tour of the Northwest, was on hand to dedicate and open for traffic the last connecting link between the new north and south side outer drives. What Franklin Roosevelt, his head filled with international affairs, had to say about the span he said in 29 vague words: "My friends, I am glad to come again to Chicago and especially to have the opportunity of taking part in the dedication of this important project of civic betterment...
Reverend Dr. Francis X. Talbot, editor of America, a Catholic weekly, retorted that this was a "perverted attempt to link Catholicism with undemocratic and unAmerican principles...
...botanical laboratory at the University of Chicago, Professor George Konrad Karl Link recently made a discovery which he considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to England, where it was published in the issue of Nature which came back to the U. S. last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness...
This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
Next week, as "a gracious link with the tradition of the old service," Owney, having traveled for the first time in 40 years, will sit in state in the lobby of the Commodore Perry Hotel in Toledo, to greet the successors of his longtime friends and protectors...