Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure proposed the removal in wartime of some 7,000,000 people from crowded areas that may be endangered by air raids. As Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, asked for passage of the bill, he lamented that it will have the effect of "setting the clock back thousands of years . . . making men, women and children disperse over the country into the remotest districts, abandoning all the amenities and necessities of civilized life...
...open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid by the Government for the cost of the plan from...
...wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about God by Christmas...
Forty years ago, when the U. S. was fighting Spain, an enterprising Tennessean, Samuel Evans Massengill, then 27 and not yet graduated from the University of Nashville Medical School, decided to manufacture drugs for doctors rather than practice medicine himself. His business, established in Bristol, Tenn., grew until it had $300,000 in assets. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users (TIME...
...dispute over reorganizing Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., largest on the West Coast, which became technically if not commercially insolvent last year when reserve requirements were upped $23,000,000 (TIME. Aug. 24). Last week the California Supreme Court upheld the reorganization plan of California Insurance Commissioner Samuel Carpenter...