Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago ended Byrnes's candidacy...
...Boys. Father Finn's choir boys now number devoted generations. Finn choristers have included Orchestra Leader Ray Heatherton, and Radio Announcer Milton Cross. One boy who failed to make the Paulist grade was radio's famed Morton Downey, who had an unsuccessful audition in 1915. "His voice," explains Father Finn, "must have been changing or something." Recently, Father Finn has been traveling, giving the benefit of his experience to Catholic choirs all over...
...even higher if 890 accused doctors now in uniform had not been excused from answering charges.) The suspensions were the result of a State drive against one of the nation's richest rackets: the "kickback" racket that has netted unscrupulous New York insurance men, lawyers, physicians and X-ray laboratories as much as $5,000,000 a year...
...steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...
...William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them. Famed Pathologist Leroy Gardner of Saranac Lake, N.Y. has also tried out aluminum (and other dusts) on silicotic guinea pigs, watched the successful results by X-ray and microscope...