Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight reducing compound in any form should be used unless the patient is under strict observation by a thoroughly qualified physician." So declared Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia to the American College of Physicians, meeting in Chicago last week. To such talk, patent medicine manufacturers and many a layman reply: "Humph, doctors trying to make more business for themselves...
...only to abridge it but also to rewrite it. Calling David Copperfield an autobiographical novel in which Dickens "for once . . . felt personally committed to the truth,'' and which he managed to keep "honest, though diluted, for quite a third of the way," Author Graves pointed out the patent fact that the novel as Dickens left it is a first-rate book stuffed with second-rate padding. Graves offered "no apologies for tampering with a reputed classic." The late Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, novelist and explorer, had written a continuation of Dombey & Son without stirring up a hornet...
...intents and purposes, promised the German people that the nation would soon have as cheap cars as the inhabitants of the United States can boast, and as large a percentage of car-owners to the whole population. Now while the immediate value of this as a demagogic gesture is patent, ultimately such a pledge, amplified and stressed as it has been throughout the country, will be measured by its fulfillment. And there can be little doubt that any such program is economically impossible within the framework of an unsubsidized German capitalist system. Either the state can take over the automobile...
...Lost was a suit over a patent for manifolds in Toledo. General Motors was ordered to pay to Swan Carburetor Co. $621,500 in royalties...
...most patent objection to Mr. Lowell's candidacy will be that he is too old to enter the Senate for six years. Anyone acquainted with him, however, will readily testify that it will be a long time before Mr. Lowell is "too old" to hold any office, least of all that of senator. By bringing Mr. Lowell to Congress, the Republican party of Massachusetts will at once bring order to the party out of its present chaos, and at the same time place one of the state's leading citizens in a position in which he can be of inestimable...