Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well known as Ivy Lee is able Thomas Joseph Ross, Jr., 39. Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee. Not only did he rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite...
...April 7 has helped put Albany beer runners out of business. Revenge on that score might have been a motive for his kidnapping. Or his abduction might have been motivated by persons who recently threatened his father. John J. ("Solly") O'Connell Sr. used to be a Republican ward boss before his family took over the town's Democracy. His chief interest now appears to be sport. He frequents race tracks, raises gamecocks on Brother Daniel's Catskill farm. Thence last week the Clan O'Connell directed negotiations for its scion's return. Obeying...
Myrtle Krause, now 18, remains a ward of the State, in the girls' home at Adrian...
...Michigan example grew out of William Well's elopement with Myrtle Krause two years ago. He was 21, a farm boy; she was 16, ward of the Probate Court at Hart. Mich. William Wells testified that after his arrest. Probate Judge Henry I. Palmiter threatened him with three to five years in the penitentiary unless he consented to sterilization. Dr. Norman W. Heysett performed the simple operation...
...have volunteered to give blood for transfusions at from $25 to $50. The Deaconess Hospital in Boston gives tests to determine four groupings for donors; patients are also divided into four corresponding groups. The amount of the fee depends upon whether the patient is in a private or open ward. The usual amount of blood transferred in one pint in this case, but there are professional blood-sellers who can give as much as one gallon a month without endangering their health...