Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote for the report, declared the matter should be studied by disinterested scientists. University of Minnesota's Miles A. Tinker pooh-poohed the tests cited in the report, said his own studies had shown no gain in speed of reading in light stronger than three foot-candles. Meanwhile, Raymond V. Long, Virginia's director of school building, charged that "the study reported by the society has been financed by utility companies...
Fourteen. Nearest approach to an A.A.R. representative at Franklin Roosevelt's conference was white-thatched Carl Raymond Gray, who at 70 retired last year from the presidency of the Union Pacific and is famed for his modernization of that big line, his benevolent relations with employes. The others who attended were ICC Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President...
...page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
...makers except Henry Ford belong to the A. M. A., and Ford Motor Co. almost always holds aloof from cooperation with the rest of the industry in any national enterprise. A. M. A. President Macauley was therefore greatly surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means a one-week...
Cigarets used to be thought sissy. Zion City, Ill., where their use is frowned upon, still clings to the older belief that every cigaret a man smokes is a nail in his coffin. Last week Johns Hopkins Biologist Raymond Pearl gave encouragement to every loyal Zion Citizen when he declared: "Smoking is associated with a definite impairment of longevity. This impairment is proportional to the habitual amount of tobacco usage by smoking, being great for heavy smokers and less for moderate smokers...