Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone. His mind was still large and showed only the normal sense of persecution felt by those in contemporary England who have been relieved of so much of their property by the State. With the shrewdness of an afflicted banker he protested against the threat of capital levy. Like Samuel Butler he had a profound respect for capital...
Crate Lifter. Then Bernstein heard that Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Alcott Thompson had developed an operation which quickly restored people like himself to useful, active lives. It sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy...
...Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, agreed on the importance of McCarthyism in the elections: "I fear," he said, "that it is effective, or that many politicians will now feel that it is important...
...present Syndics from the College are John O. Brew, director of Peabody Museum, Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin, Oscar Handlin, professor of American History, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, Paul C. Mangelsderf, professor of Botany, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astronomy, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology...