Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted by one Herman Schulenberg, 53, Milwaukee mechanic. Four years ago his cancerous larynx was removed. Last week Joseph Clark Beck...
...flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased it, and as recently as 1925 the club finished last in the league race. Then astute Mr. Wrigley got able Joseph McCarthy to manage his team. The Cubs finished fourth in 1926 and 1927, third in 1928 and this year won by so wide...
...this are the Transamerica Corp., the Northwest Bancorporation, the First Bank Stock Corp., the Guardian Detroit Union group, the New Midland Marine Corp. (TIME, Sept. 30), the Bancohio Corp., organized last week and the Banco Kentucky Corp. which will shortly purchase the Brighton Bank & Trust Co. and the Pearl-Market Bank & Trust Co. both of Cincinnati...
...President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products of the recently acquired General Sea Foods, Inc., of Gloucester. But the chief beneficiaries of General Foods Corp.'s expansion are Broker Edward F. ("Lucky Ed") Hutton and his golden-haired, oyster-and-pearl-fond wife, Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of Charles W. Post of Postum and Toastie fame.* Hutton wealth is disbursed in gorgeous grandeur. Invited to the famed Manville-Bernadotte wedding in Pleasantville, N. Y., Mrs. Hutton drove to Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made...
Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The great Vienna International Fair, Austria's semi-annual chance to make trade contacts with other countries would open in a few days. Without tourists, the fair could not succeed. What was the Chancellor going...