Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Oklahoma's silver-tongued young Senator Josh Lee introduced Alfred P. ("Fish") Murrah to Franklin Roosevelt as candidate for Federal District Judge in Oklahoma, the President declared: "He's young enough. Is he liberal enough? Does he recognize the rights of the man in the street as well as the man in the skyscraper...
After assisting a babe into the world, U. S. doctors customarily see to it that a few drops of silver nitrate are dropped into the infant's eyes to prevent blindness from venereal infection. In 20 States such prophylaxis is required by law. In eleven more it is mandatory under certain conditions. In Washington last week the District of Columbia Committee of the House of Representatives had before it a bill to require in the District eye prophylaxis at birth. The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a subcommittee...
...Senate amendment and sent its Washington one-man Committee on Publications, William G. Biederman, to the House subcommittee hearing last week to see that it stuck. Committeeman Biederman argued Christian Science's case on, broad Constitutional grounds while physicians and welfare workers simply held out for silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes of Indiana tried to soothe Committeeman Biederman's agitated scruples by suggesting that eye treatment was very little different from...
...borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with patents applied for, she gave a demonstration in Manhattan for friends and newshawks...
...Portland, Ore. boy of 9 and a girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...