Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for Mayor WillB Hadley was no politician to stir apathetic Philadelphians to white heat. He was a master of figures, not words, a shy, frugal, philosophical man, whose chief joy was his 650-acre farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz...
Microanalysis. By means of capillary tubes which require microscopes to tell when they are properly filled and a tiny iron-filled glass ball agitated by an electromagnet to stir the contents of the tiny glass vessels, Drs. David Glick and Gerson Ravinson Biskind of San Francisco made micro-analyses of microscopic bits of human tissue. Thus they learned that the middle part of pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy...
...North Carolina-Virginia epidemic of infantile paralysis last week threatened to stir up an epidemic of hysteria. Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, persuaded Governor Earle to persuade Secretary of War Dern to forbid the mobilization of Virginia and District of Columbia National Guardsmen for summer maneuvers in Pennsylvania. Virginia and District of Columbia troops therefore played war in their own backyards...
...western Kansas farmers did their part to discourage tax suits by declaring a boycott on a milling company. A group of Texans headed by Clifford Day, who led the farmers' march on Washington last May, went to Washington with expenses paid by AAA and returned home: 1) to stir up farmers to fight the Bankhead Act injunction; 2) to start a farm movement to reduce tariffs in retaliation against manufacturers who refused to share governmental favors with agriculture. This tariff opposition, said AAAdministrator Davis, was quite "natural," thus tacitly approving a bill introduced by Senator Murphy of Iowa...
...expected they were mistaken, for President Roosevelt on vacations displayed a pronounced preference for his own New Dealers, rather than for regular Democrats, as companions. So last week when he finally accepted the club's invitation to Jefferson Islands through its president, Senator Robinson, the announcement made a stir in Washington...