Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managing the Press. Last week he succeeded even further when he became his own press. Arriving in Jacksonville overnight from Washington he boarded the Farragut, one of the Navy's newest and finest destroyers, which whisked him off at a 35-knot clip to the Bahamas. His secretary, Marvin Mclntyre, his Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and his bevy of newshawks proceeded on by rail to Miami. For the rest of the week the only news accounts of Franklin Roosevelt were those he wrote and wirelessed back...
...head of that office-Senator Long's Marvin Mclntyre, "Steve" Early and James Aloysius Farley rolled into one-is Earle J. Christenberry. Secretary Christenberry works on a yearly contract, holds Mr. Long's power of attorney, pays his bills, looks after his $55,000 life insurance. Fourteen years ago Mr. Christenberry claimed the world's record in stenography, later ran a public stenographic service in New Orleans. He got his job early one morning when Huey Long called him up and dictated a long letter over the telephone. Nowadays he works Sundays, nights and holidays. He sees...
...special symposium. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 63, of Manhattan, famed among medical scholars for his discoveries in all kinds of heart and visceral diseases, explained the causes of coronary disease and angina pectoris. Dr. Henry Harlow Brooks, 64, of Manhattan, famed diagnostician, explained the best medical treatment. Dr. Harold Myers Marvin, 41, a rising Yale scholar, evaluated treatment by surgery...
Surgery is practically useless in controlling angina pectoris, declared Dr. Marvin. A few years ago surgeons, without knowing precisely why, cut certain nerves near the neck, which carry messages to and from the heart. All that this did was to keep the patient from being aware of the agonizing pain and in some instances prevent spasms from contracting the coronary arteries. But such operations did not attack the underlying causes of the spasms or pain. Besides, many patients died during the operations. So now few surgeons perform them...
Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...