Word: victims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, Mr. Garrett, 57, will succeed Henry Prather Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador (professional), resigned, who sailed last week for the U. S. Mr. Fletcher was a victim of Rumor. When he personally conducted President-Elect Hoover down, across and around South America, Rumor chose him to be Secretary of State. When the No. 1 Cabinet job went to Henry Lewis Stimson, Rumor made Mr. Fletcher Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, largely because he had served 27 years as a career diplomat. After Charles Gates Dawes was chosen, Mr. Fletcher resigned. Rumor picked him up again...
George Mosher, 14, "kala-azar victim" (TIME, July 1), died last week. Ten blood transfusions, the interest of the Rockefeller Institute and the New York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
Willys-Overland Co. represented a 1908 reorganization of the old Overland Co., a panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss...
...snipper'' in Boston. You were so prompt and authoritative in identifying the recent case of transvestism that I wondered why you failed to spot this case of a snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months before I was born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...