Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement said that the laboratory work was done by James Henry Thompson and 30 assistants, with the collaboration of 200 hospitals and 1,200 physicians. So far, the injections have been used only on hopeless cases. Said Sir George: "We are anxious not to raise any false hopes, but the results of our extract . . . have been encouraging...
...British Medical Research Union was optimistic about the new treatment. But doctors at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital who had never heard of Hosa Laboratories or Researcher Thompson, were skeptical. Said one doctor: "Pure bunk." But he admitted a bare possibility that there might be something to H 11. Even specialists have little idea where the eventual answer to cancer will be found...
...Canadian rules were no handicap to the U.S. team, from the moment the Canadian Army's Mustangs fumbled the opening kickoff. For the U.S. Infantry Blues, Quarterback Tommy Thompson of Fort Worth, Tex., formerly of the professional Philadelphia Eagles, threw two touchdown passes to Halfback Corporal Johnny Bayne, from Ridge Farm, Ill. Corporal Bayne ran the ball to another score, and the Blues just missed two more close chances. Final score: Blues -18; Mustangs...
Leland S. McKittrick, John P. McMorrow, Frederick P. Murphy, Jr., William E. Murphy, Donal E. O'Callaghan, Roswell B. Perkins, John T. D. Rich, Clinton M. Ritchie, Jr., William B. Rogers, David M. Satz, Jr., Benjamin D. Soble, William L. Sprout, Charles D. Thompson, Kenner M. Throop, Jr., Nathan Weston, Roger H. Wilson...
Died. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, 74, flamboyant three-time mayor of Chicago; after a heart attack; in Chicago. The breezy giant entered Chicago politics in 1900 on a bet; in 1915 he was elected mayor by the largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected...