Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huge advertisements in all major Eastern railroad stations this week lured the public with announcements of drastic cuts in fares. None of the posters made mention of the fact that 23 major Eastern railroads were last week settling down to a grim court fight against the Interstate Commerce Commission's order which made the new fares necessary. All 23 meticulously obeyed the order but declared they would reinstate the old fares if the courts would permit. Of all Eastern roads, only the Baltimore & Ohio complied voluntarily, announced the cuts were permanent...
...their feet jumped the Members of Parliament, cheering Premier Baldwin to the echo. Before the press gallery had recovered from its amazement at this, the first official mention of Italy in the House as a possible British adversary, pompous, paunchy Sir Thomas Inskip, newly appointed Minister for Defense Coordination, was up, waving a sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers...
...achievements in science. Among the distinguished dozen were two Detroiters, one of them, Charles Franklin Kettering, already famed as General Motors' research vice president; the other so little known even in his home city that, when Detroit newspapers got word of the Franklin awards, they could find no mention of him in their morgues. This was Albert Leroy Marsh, president of Detroit's Hoskins Manufacturing Co., who won the John Price Wetherill Medal "for discoveries or inventions in the physical sciences or for new and important combinations of principles or methods already known," as a result of work...
...Mention of magazine articles on maternity stirred A. M. A. obstetricians to angry outbursts. Indignantly recalled was the fact that U. S. mothers first heard of twilight sleep through the enterprise of McClwe's Magazine in June 1914.* Now running in Ladies' Home Journal is a series of blatantly emotional articles called "Why Should Mothers Die?" by Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif. Cried Kansas City's Dr. Buford Garvin Hamilton last week: "American obstetrics seems to be becoming a competitive practice to please American women in accordance with what they read in lay magazines...
...hobo that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...