Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...botanical laboratory at the University of Chicago, Professor George Konrad Karl Link recently made a discovery which he considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to England, where it was published in the issue of Nature which came back to the U. S. last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness...
...This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
When Bob Hutchins became president of University of Chicago, he dubbed Douglas "the outstanding professor of law of the nation," offered him $20,000 to go to Chicago. Douglas refused because he wanted to complete his long studies in corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. A report he wrote on this subject in the Yale Law Review took the eye of Kennedy and Landis. Kennedy had never met Douglas and Landis knew him only slightly, but both were well aware of his record. In 1934, soon after the SEC got under way, Landis telephoned Douglas to come to Washington...
...George T. Lewis, a bewhiskered gentleman who has been called the "first great chemical enterpriser" of the U. S. Present president of "Salt" is Leonard Tillinghast Beale, great-nephew of George. Extremely conservative and retiring. President Beale. 56, has headed "Salt" since 1928. In "Salt's" annual report last week he announced a net of $1,769,407 for the year ended June 30. as against $1,285,645 for the previous twelve months. Dividends totaled...
...notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...