Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were brought to the notice of the committee. Several months ago, a professor at Columbia University declared that all persons who whistled with their lips were morons. This was merely an ingenious method of getting his name in print before publishing one of his books. The manufacturer of a patent reducing medicine hired 40 New York chorus girls and, after dividing the city into zones, sent them on a circuit to all the drug-stores, where they bought tooth-paste, aspirin, etc., and finally asked for the reducing product. If the store did not have any in stock the girls...
Representative Byrns, chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee, declared that, at Mr. Hoover's suggestion, the Patent Office had been transferred from the Interior Department to the Commerce Department and its annual cost had thereafter risen from $3,708,000 to $5,236,750. He also emphasized the President's own addiction to new commissions and special boards and suggested he could make a better start toward reorganization economy by abolishing some of them...
...Published by himself. *Whose editor, Patent Attorney Orson Desaix Munn, has an abiding skeptic interest in psychic phenomena...
...prepared the vaccine, a secrecy which vexed other bacteriologists and made physicians suspicious of his claims. Certain patients in London hospitals submitted to the Spahlinger treatment. A few of them apparently were cured. His talkative, rich friends bruited his "cures," gave him unprofessional fame. A manufacturer of patent medicines offered him, it was said, $1,000.000 for his "formula." That "bribe" Henry Spahlinger disdained, spent his entire fortune of some $500,000 on perfecting his remedy. It was then that the Aga Khan, the Duke of Westminster and others placed their lien, now canceled, on the formula of manufacture. Henry...
...centuries, he may also assume high complacency as he did last month in inviting all Christendom to re-turn to Catholicism. He may, further, agree with vigorous America which said:' "The truth seems to be that our enemies are in a panic. . . . The note of alarm is everywhere patent. The triple statements of Pope Pius XI on education, the family and economics showed the world that the Catholic Church contains a complete body of truth unassailable in logic...