Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case anyone ever questioned the American Medical Association's power to quell a quack completely, the Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
...jury of Iowa farmers and merchants agreed that it was no libel to call Norman Baker a quack, gave the A. M. A. another memento mori to wave at other charlatans...
...precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman Douglas, and James Joyce's Ulysses down in the vault from which they may be withdrawn by special permission of the Librarian. In order to get a copy of Ballyhoo one has but to go to the Common Room...
...Paris, U. S. commercial attaches scurried around the ministries, attempting to win over competing Norman apple growers, hoping to find a loophole by which U. S. Pippins and Baldwins could slip through the embargo if each shipment was accompanied by a special bill of health from U. S. sanitary inspectors. Also in Paris last week was none other than the President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, grey-haired Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, who has been at various times president of the U. S. Bar and Golf Associations. Lawyer Strawn was U. S. delegate to the Chinese tariff...
Voltaire's biography will be the subject that Dr. Norman Lewis Torrey '15, now assistant professor of French at Yale, intends to work on during the period. He will also do research in the Public Library at Leningrad...