Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...transparent water flea called Daphnia magna has had a lot of flattering things said about it by Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science. "This little animal has a divine simplicity that is miraculous," Professor Viehoever never tires of telling. "It is seemingly a primitive form of life until studied. Its fundamental biological responses are very similar to ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems, and the beauty of it is that the animal is perfectly transparent so you can see everything that is happening, from the digestion of its food...
...gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...
...Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact, that last week State Insurance Department officials could well afford the modest protest that it was "no Magna Charta...
...tyro in fiscal postmortems, the author of these flat statements is 42-year-old Bernard Joseph Reis. who graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 1915, earned an LL. B. there in 1918, a C. P. A. in 1921. Since then he has been professionally exploring such corporate cadavers as the collapsed G. L. Miller Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Co. business of 1926, done accounting work for courts and public prosecutors in bankruptcies and reorganizations. In his book he reviews what happened to $11,988,814,205 of defaulted securities "sold to the public by reputable banking houses...