Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...
...Anti-Mothball Society have yet been reported. But last week in Dublin, Ga., Rev. T. B. Seibenham put a notice SEATS FREE on his Centenary Methodist Church, on the chance that it might increase attendance. The sign attracted such an unaccustomed spate of worshipers that Mr. Seibenham took a second look at it. It had been altered to read: EATS FREE...
Hambletonian Stake (Wed. 3 p.m., NBC-Blue). First heat of the No. 1 trotting race at Goshen, N. Y., described by gobbling Sportscaster Clem McCarthy. Second and third heats...
...system, developed for a debtor nation, had no machinery for providing foreign buyers with long-term credits. The first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia alone. Pending debt settlements between the two countries, this bank did nothing and the Second Export-Import Bank was set up to handle credits for Cuba. When negotiations with Russia finally broke down, the two banks were merged with power to lend to all nations except Russia...
...merely the South's." It is the conviction of eight Southern Governors that the chief barrier to the South's economic improvement is a system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex controversy; in Buffalo, the North had the floor. ICC will now ponder whose victory would be best for the U. S. as a whole...