Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field Representative of the Field Army, Dr. Little chose Mrs. Marjorie B. Illig of Onset, Mass., wife of a General Motors executive and before her marriage a trained radiologist working for cancer specialists in Massachusetts. Mrs. Illig has the advantage of being not only a clubwoman in charge of the Federation's division of health, but a qualified speaker on cancer prevention...
...counties shoulder-to-shoulder with the state and county medical societies, the American Society for the Control of Cancer's women's army is first going to collect $1 from at least 2,000,000 U. S. women. With this $2,000,000 the army will finance mass meetings, lectures, radio broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, print and distribute tons of literature urging all U. S. women to be on the alert for unusual lumps, sores, bleeding, and telling them what to do about these symptoms if they occur...
...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share...
Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...great mass of the College has views on athletic policies and problems which deserve to be heard, but which the H.A.A. does not hear fully. The H.A.A. has made some attempts to win undergraduate support by a policy of harkening to undergraduate voices. But these attempts are failures because the student committees which they established meet so sporadically as to cripple student interest and initiative in athletic problems...