Word: slyke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
Exceedingly apropos is a despatch from Tennessee, printed last week by the Republican New York Sun, staunch supporter of Candidate Hoover. The Sun's star political correspondent, George Van Slyke wired: "The religionists have thrown off all restraints in the last month and are working openly against Smith. The State is flooded with the anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears...
...Hospital, and Dr. Cyrus W. Field, of Bellevue, Manhattan, who say that a large majority of high blood-pressure cases are due to other causes, particularly to abnormal conditions of the blood due to inactivity of the kidneys. They are using a formula of Dr. D. D. Van Slyke, of the Rockefeller Institute-a method of determining the functional activity of the kidneys which makes possible the improvement of certain cases of high blood-pressure by dietary methods. In such cases, and even in acute cases in which apoplexy is a danger, the condition may be greatly reduced or arrested...