Word: sawyerism
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...must create the Johns Hopkins of China!" cried one trustee), studied scarlet fever in Rumania, malaria in Nicaragua, undulant fever in France, oroya fever in Peru, dengue fever on Guam. It set up a yellow fever commission under General W. C. Gorgas, and one of its doctors-Wilbur A. Sawyer-eventually found an effective vaccine...
Back to the Labyrinths. The Trumans were also invited, as usual, to a holiday dinner and reception at the grandiose farm home of their old friend C. Blevins Davis, onetime Independence schoolteacher who came into money on the death of his wife, Great Northern Railroad Heiress Marguerite Sawyer Hill. This set some local tongues wagging, since Host Davis had been sued by a New York salesman named Collins last autumn on the grounds that he had found Mrs. Hill and helped C. Blevins win her for his bride. The Trumans firmly ignored the gossip, went to the party, and seemed...
...sworn in as SDP Administrator last week, Taylor got a cold welcome to Washington from Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, who told an Ohio audience SDPA was unnecessary. Said he: "The work [of SDPA] could have been done by existing agencies effectively"-specifically, Charlie Sawyer's department, which now looks after troubled small businessmen...
...Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer...
...Edward U. Condon; retiring director of the National Bureau of Standards, was given a farewell dinner in Washington last week. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was there, and 400 prominent scientists and officials. The speech Dr. Condon had prepared was a talk on the importance of basic research. But at the last minute he changed his mind, put the address away, and tore into the House Un-American Activities Committee, which three years ago called him "one of the weakest links in our atomic security," but never held public hearings to let him refute the charge...