Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...management, found himself suddenly being hustled with his office force through Harbin's cobbled streets and dusty squares and locked into his house preparatory to being booted from the country. Almost immediately, the Chinese assistant general manager, Shan Chi-khan, walked into the empty Em-shanov office, sat down, took charge for China and kept the trains moving despite riots...
...succeed Editor Gauvreau is one M. H. Weyrauch, onetime assistant city editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, whom Mr. Gauvreau took to the Graphic when it was started...
...Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals to take treatments the Institute advertised in Chicago papers. To the League the Institute paid $12,000 yearly to treat charity cases, and Dr. Schmidt as a League urologist took nominal fees out of that $12,000. This was a nice case for professional dialectics: Dr. Schmidt " unethically" advertising for clients. The Illinois Medical Society refused to induce the Chicago society to reinstate Dr. Schmidt. The national Association, to which Dr. Schmidt had appealed, kept the subject anesthetized last week...
...pharmacologist, had hoped that the Association would finally be induced to take up the campaign against "impure" ergot imports which he has been conducting in collaboration with Howard W. Ambruster, an independent Manhattan ergot importer (TIME, April 15, May 13). Apparently because of the commercial complications involved, the Association took no ergot action, left to the U. S. Government the enforcement of pure drug laws and standards...
...born in Ireland, came to this country at the age of 12, later fought in the Civil War where he lost an arm in battle and spent nine months in Confederate prisons. The elder Macauley was West Virginia's first Secretary of State. The son went to Lehigh University, took a law degree at George Washington University, became (1895) patent attorney for National Cash Register...