Word: widmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...
Near Poughkeepsie, Oscar Widmer, 50, weatherman, spent many evenings wandering, with club and dog, along deserted roads, peeking at couples in parked automobiles. Recently he was hailed to court, charged with opening the door of an automobile belonging to one Thomas Wright, pulling the leg of Mr. Wright's lady companion, "twitting" Mr. Wright, whose companion was Mrs. Wright. Weatherman Widmer's sentence: 30 days...
Among the 14 new members elected to the Academy at the same time are Irving Widmer Bailey '07, Professor of Plant Anatomy at the Bussey Institute, and James Bryant Conant '13, Professor of Chemistry at Harvard...
Three members of the University Faculty have received promotion to take effect September 1. James Angel! McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of Law, has been elevated to a full professorship in the Law School, and Irving Widmer Bailey '07, Associate Professor of Forestry, has been named Assistant Professor of Plant Anatomy at the Bussey Institution. E. C. Kemble G '14 has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics...