Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superintendents of the country's two service academies?Rear-Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison and Major-General William Ruthven Smith?journeyed to Washington last week. They went separately but in parallel frames of mind. A meeting between them had been quietly suggested by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy, President Hoover. The dignitaries obeyed the unwritten order but did not greatly relish the matter in hand...
Esophageal Auscultation. Announcement by Dr. Samuel Bondi, professor of internal medicine at the University of Vienna, that he was regularly shoving a small stethoscope down the throats of his heart patients, revived attention in such esophageal auscultation. The heart is closer to the esophagus than to any other reachable part of the body. Hence its sound can be heard most clearly through the esophagus wall. But to gain extra clearness at the cost of a patient's comfort is something that few doctors will...
...Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller...
Ever since he lifted the Chicago Opera and its million-a-year deficit from the grateful shoulders of Harold Fowler McCormick, Mr. Insull has made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting...
...mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches of it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. It almost blots out New Jersey and New Hampshire, parts of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It is the design of the fields of operation of the public utility companies over which Samuel Tnsull, financial father of the Chicago opera, rules as power primate...