Word: listers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
...states that these antiseptics are of no value and yet one of the greatest surgeons that ever lived laid the cornerstone of modern medicine with an antiseptic solution having the same germicidal strength as the antiseptics so rashly criticized. Lord Lister was able to prevent infections with a solution of carbolic acid. . . . This doesn't make sense, and yet this is the sort of statement which is being copied in critical books and other publica-tions throughout the country. Can it be that at this late day it is found that antiseptic surgery is a failure, that Lister...
With their British political careers ripening as uneventfully as grain, Sir Bolton and Secretary for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had Viscountcies conferred upon them by George V last week. By accepting them they signified that neither has any ambition to become Prime Minister, considered impossible today for a member of the House of Lords...
...improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which the guests of honor were Lord Tweedsmuir, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, Minister for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and their ladies...
...Hammered out of aristocratic Air Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister the admission that British firms are now selling aircraft engines to Germany to power the battle planes with which Realmleader Hitler has so upset the British public...