Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed the petition was also a onetime President of the U. S.- William Howard Taft. When Brandeis was finally confirmed and when William Howard Taft followed him to the bench as Chief Justice...
...Sire." By the time U. S. Labor had made plain its opinion of the Windsor tour, the Efficiency Expert began to feel that he was not the ideal person to insure the Duke of Windsor the kind of reception he got when he visited the U. S. as Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles...
Died. Robert Potter Hill, 63, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, onetime (1913-15) Representative from Illinois; of a heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty...
...Szent-Györgyi later found, along with Vitamin C in fruit juices and adrenals, a "permeability factor" which he calls Vitamin P, not present in synthesized C. Vitamin P keeps the walls of body cells in good condition. Without both, a person develops pyorrhea and scurvy. He bleeds easily, may be subject to certain virus and bacterial diseases. With an ample supply of these vitamins, he can overcome such ailments. Although Hungarian pepper is the most abundant source of these vitamins, this condiment is little known in the U. S. Most convenient source of the vitamins thus remain...
...ordinary person blithely unconcerned with the trials and tribulations accompanying the daily publication of a college newspaper, the regular appearance of the CRIMSON at his door each morning may seem to be a matter of inconsequential routine...