Word: tem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northwest chose the light-weight (4 oz.), nose-gripping oxygen masks invented by grey-haired Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and two other doctors of the Mayo Clinic and already used to cure and prevent seasickness (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week, after demonstrating the oxygen sys tem in an overweather flight of four hours and 50 minutes from Minneapolis to Boston with nine passengers, Chief Pilot Mai Freeburg showed Northwest's new flying wrinkle to Boston and Manhattan scientists and newsmen...
These militarists pro tem were none other than Janizaries Tommy Corcoran, Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams. Their nearest approach to a professional consultant was Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, who likes to ignore generals. Nor was aggressive Mr. Johnson loath to leave out Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, who has been making cause with the snubbed general against his nominal assistant...
...onetime (1932-34) RFC director who organized Arkansas's first telephone sys tem, strapping, 61-year-old Harvey Couch is Arkansas's wealthiest private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch...
...renowned Van Dycks, his Raphael Room, his magnificent Rembrandts. Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses...
...leader of a band of Bowery urchins who play harmonicas on street corners to pick up stray pennies, Miss Temple accidentally crashes the high society of the 1930's and finally ends up playing little Eva in "Uncls Tem's Cabin...