Word: tilney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Henry J. Cochran of Plainfield, N. J., longtime vice president of Bankers' Trust Co. of New York, cousin of Morgan-Partner Thomas Cochran; to be president, succeeding Albert Arthur Tilney of Plainfield, who becomes board vice chairman...
...expected to be transformed by negotiations now pending into a semiprivate corporation which will be financed by an $80,000,000 loan. Part of this issue would be floated in Manhattan by Blair & Co., and last week the project was reported to be waxing strongly, as President Albert Arthur Tilney of the Bankers' Trust Co. was rumored en route to Warsaw...
Narcosan may be a cure for drug addiction. Commissioner Wallis said that it had been tested on 366 prisoners in the Correctional Hospital on Welfare Island. He said that narcosan cured them, at least temporarily. His report attracted considerable attention. Dr. Alexander Lambert and Dr. Frederick Tilney, famed Manhattan physicians, reported on narcosan in the New York Medical Journal and Record. They said that it had relieved , morphin, cocain, heroin, veronal and alcohol addiction, without causing delirium or intense suffering. Whether the treatment was permanent or not they said they did not know, could not guess...
...scientists representing different branches, contributed to a symposium on recent researches in the origin of man. The upshot of it was that man's nearest living relative is the gorilla, though man is not directly descended from him. Dr. Frederick Tilney, the neurologist, comparing cross-sections of the brains of apes and monkeys, showed that the size and complexity of the brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight...
Sometime toward the end of the Elizabethen Age, Anthony Munday presented a play for the approval of the National Board of Review, a position then held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results...