Word: md
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baltimore, Md...
...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...
Motoring down to Morgantown, Md., 55 miles below Washington on the Potomac, Mr. Roosevelt took Candidate Lewis along with him, permitted plump Republican Governor Nice...
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse...
...Toxins which have been made nonpoisonous;md are used for immunization...