Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Professor Thurlow Christian Nelson, head of Rutgers University's zoology department, bluntly told New York and New Jersey health officials that the Greater New York area "has probably the highest incidence of trichinosis in hogs and in humans to be found anywhere in the world." Next in rank are Boston and San Francisco. Many of the cases are caused by consumption of improperly cooked frankfurters and hamburgers which are made of mixed pork and beef, said Dr. Nelson. "The average 'hot dog,' " he explained, "is barely warmed through before being slapped into its mustard bath...
...other side of the war, the Chinese appeared cocky. Back in Washington, Nelson Trusler Johnson, able and well-informed U. S. Ambassador to China, reported that Chinese morale was excellent, China's hopes high. In Chungking, Sun Fo, President of the Chinese Legislative Yuan, son of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, substantiated Mr. Johnson: "Our prospects are progressively brighter. We fight on with growing confidence, new unity and new strength...
...anybody's and everybody's soapbox. Since radio's No. 1 schmalz*artist, Phillips Lord (Seth Parker), concocted it more than two years ago, about 1,000 human odds and ends have said their pieces during its half-hour broadcasts. An assorted few: Eleanor Roosevelt, Battling Nelson, Don Budge, Mrs. Dutch Schultz, the postmaster of Santa Claus, Ind., Tom Mooney...
...Married. Nelson Eddy, 37, radio, concert and cinema singer; and Ann Franklin, 40, divorced wife of Cinema Director Sidney Franklin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
...Portland, Ore., John Nelson Ridgley, 106, inherited his late daughter's $60,000 fortune...