Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago of Rhode Island, the anniversary of which Baptists are currently celebrating in the conviction that this pioneer in religious freedom was their spiritual ancestor. Northern Baptists. During the widespread U. S. religious ferment of a century ago, the Church of Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) was formed by a onetime Baptist named Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches...
Excepting a period when he was President of the New York Evening Post, 1920-23, Professor Gay has been a Harvard faculty member since 1902. As first Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1908-1919, Professor Gay sponsored many pioneer features in the new field of university business education, among them the first comprehensive program of business research in the United States, involving the collection and analysis of figures showing the margins, expenses, and profits of retail and wholesale business. As Professor of Economic History, since 1924, he has studied extensively the nature and results...
...three normal births in the U. S: today are accomplished without any form of pain-killer for the mother. Because the great majority of women bear this natural ordeal bravely, they have made no concerted demand for relief in childbed nor have more than a handful of pioneer doctors attempted to give them any. After last week's debate a fair-minded physician would probably come to the following conclusions: 1) Semi-narcosis is still a perfectly reasonable, safe and feasible obstetric help, provided the doctor knows how and when to administer the necessary drugs; 2) Most doctors...
...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...
...incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...