Word: rickards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided between Banting and Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his department head who had made the research work possible but had done none of it until after the basic discovery. Banting was sore because he felt that Charles Best, the laboratory assistant who had actually helped him track down insulin, had been slighted. He honored Best in his own impulsive way by giving him half of his own share of the prize money...
...worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime president of National City Bank of New York...
...Sweden has to keep an eye on her Nazis. In 1933 political uniforms were banned, owners of firearms ordered to register. Swedes became sufficiently conscious of the Nazi penetration to organize a private boycott of German goods. In 1935 anti-German Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler got an act passed to end foreign control, through dummy corporations, of Swedish industries. It was aimed at Krupp's one-third ownership of the Bofors works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate...
This was a direct challenge to Rickard Sandler's old friend, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. The pained expression on the Prime Minister's face suggested that he considered it a stab in the back. Most members of the Riksdag thought it was certainly a bid for all those who want Sweden openly to enter the war against Russia to rally around Rickard Sandler. For the first time he disclosed the reason for his resignation last month, admitting that he wanted to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 men to the Aland Islands, which scheme Prime Minister...