Word: myron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Myron Segal, 35, with an arm-long string of qualifications for human surgery, including the straight-to-the-heart type, got into the sideline of saving dogs' lives by accident. Where he had lived, in Montreal and Boston, heartworm was no problem. But in the South (where the worm larvae are carried by flies or mosquitoes), it afflicts many dogs. Caught soon after the animal begins to cough and wheeze, it can be treated with arsenical drugs. What interested Dr. Segal was the advanced cases, too far gone for drugs, which a vet drew to his attention...
Almost from the start, the U.S. industry was scarred by a series of violent, bloody strikes. Labor did not succeed in organizing the industry until 1937, when the door was opened by U.S. Steel. President Roosevelt persuaded the late Myron C. Taylor, then Big Steel's board chairman (and later Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican) to make a contract with the United Steelworkers, the first in the industry...
...works, present problems for any professor; he must resolve the tension between his role as apostle and his role as expositor. This tension becomes evident in courses such as History 130, "Renaissance and Reformation," in which the problems of historical interpretation are augmented by those of divergent religious claims. Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History, admits that "It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief." Gilmore does admit in History 130 that he has sympathies, chiefly with More and Erasmus, but he is sure to indicate that he is speaking "extra-historically." Gilmore probably speaks...
...Died. Myron C. Taylor, 85, industrialist, philanthropist, representative to the Vatican for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ready to retire at 50 from a successful business career as a textile executive, Taylor was launched on a second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served...
...group of alumni is campaigning to obtain funds for a chair in Latin American history. "We hope to have the permanent professorship by September, 1960," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, disclosed yesterday...