Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norman C. Norman got his first taste of publicity when he held out against the NRA jewelry code, refused to pay a $100 assessment for code administration, sought to go to Washington, make a test case. Next he demanded that Baltimore & Ohio Railroad pay him $39.10 in Roosevelt dollars on a $1,000 gold bond, instead of the $22.50 interest the company offered. This time he did make a test case. got his name and picture in the papers throughout the country as the U. S. Supreme Court pondered the "Gold Clause" (TIME, Jan. 21). Later he vainly tried...
...diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty helped him. He spent $2,000 of his own cash. The University gave...
...Knoxville, Tenn.'s Asbury Cemetery, the parents of the late Pete Kreis, automobile racer killed in a test run at Indianapolis last year, finished installing over his grave an 11-ft.-by-5-ft. monument showing a racing car hurtling over a speedway retaining wall. Said his mother Ida: "Pete always liked things different...
...Plumer '21, now in the employ of the Chinese Customs Service. This 'disease' has long puzzled archeologists, and it is hoped that chemical analysis will not only disclose the cause of this metallic 'alment', but that the actual rate of decomposition will also be discovered, providing a fairly accurate test...
...suggest that perhaps the oath will prove not to be mandatory. Then the refusal of one man to obey the law would quickly have shown this. Next you suggest a test case on the constitutionality of the law. How is this to be brought about except by the refusal of someone to obey it? Lastly you suggest that if the law is a poor piece of legislation, as you say is "probable", Professor Mather could "arouse public opinion to influence the State Legislature in its repeal". Is this not just what he set about to do? Bert Arenson...