Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arms. On Lucas' behalf, Douglas and McAdams were using the same tactics they had used to get Douglas elected in 1948. Ever since 1942, when both tried unsuccessfully to buck the Kelly-Nash machine, "Spike" McAdams, a onetime professional bantamweight boxer, had been the devoted sidekick of ex-Professor Douglas. Like Douglas, who lost the use of his left arm while fighting with the Marines on Okinawa, McAdams, now a successful attorney, had lost his in action with the Navy at Leyte. Their 1948 technique had been to scour the state in a jeep, stopping at factories, filling stations...
Green has not named his pitching choice yet, but it is probable that Spike Gerwin, who went all the way against Penn, will start. Tom Turner, John Maloney, and Buzz Hammer, three capable relief men, will be held in reserve...
Last week in Chicago federal district court, the U.S. Government was finally taking official, disapproving notice of the Magic Spike. Inventor Nelson's son, Robert T. Nelson Jr., and his partner George C. Erickson were on trial, charged, under the Pure Food and Drug Act, with "false and misleading" claims about the gadget's powers (maximum penalty: a year in jail...
...Lowdown. The prosecution called half a dozen disease-ridden Magic Spike buyers to the stand, all of whom testified that they had been relieved of nothing but their money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive...
Undaunted, the defense sent a parade of satisfied Magic Spike customers to the stand. One man testified that a Magic Spike had cured his dachshund, Hector, of paralysis of the hindquarters. He also declared that until he bought the gadget in 1939, he himself had been short of breath and unable to walk against the wind. After he got the spike, he said, he walked against the wind fine. Another witness testified that a Magic Spike not only cured his arthritis but also made his wife's violets blossom three times better than normal. Another man simply told...