Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melody after another. The disappointment of his life was his failure to make a lasting name as a serious composer. He wrote concertos, cantatas, symphonic suites, all long forgotten. He wrote two operas: His Natoma was produced in 1911 by the Chicago Opera Company with Mary Garden and John McCormack, survived 38 performances; Madeleine (1914) lasted only four at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10? bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands...
...Francis Christopher McCormack, Holy Name's medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
...McCormack thereupon did the inevitable drastic thing where maternity wards are concerned. He ordered all babies and mothers removed. He ordered all floors, ceilings, windows, doors and utensils scrubbed, disinfected and sterilized. He ordered all food supplies destroyed, all drinking water retested. Finally he ordered every doctor, nurse, orderly and other hospital employe examined, found no significant disease. All that Dr. McCormack and experts could do was to bemoan the mysterious mightiness of germs and viruses and poisons...
...declared that he had been grossly misquoted. Asked whether he believed this to be the beginning of a nation-wide Fascist campaign or merely a Hearst publicity stunt, Dr. Beyle declined to answer, saying that he would reserve his comments in case he is called is testify before the McCormack-Dicksters committee investigating un-American activities...