Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First the Senate got rid of a move to split the Pittman bill in two, divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
Generalissimo Pittman quietly held his fire for the moment the battle reached the amendment trenches. Victory was his-if he would make a certain sacrifice...
Ships. Key Pittman's army is a motley one of Republican converts, Old Dealers, New Dealers. Some are stragglers by nature, others can easily be lured up inviting side alleys. In one of those side alleys stood an expert siren whose wiles have been 100% effective in U. S. history: the shipping lobby...
...baby, instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci. Happy Dr. McLeod passed the glad news on to the U. S. Public Health Service, and Bacteriologist Margaret Pittman set to work in her laboratory to make sure his lucky hit was indeed...
Bacteriologist Pittman was not completely satisfied, urged that sulfapyridine be given "further trial." Her experiments had shown that "[sulfapyridine] did not prevent the bacteria from entering the bloodstream, but it apparently retarded their increase in the blood...