Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor have their champions. The rich need none. The British middle classes had one in William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and today the U. S. is offered another by Walter Boughton Pitkin, 62, Columbia University publicist who discovered seven years ago that "life begins at 40." Last year prodigious Professor Pitkin explained "why we need a rabble rouser of the right" (TIME, Sept. 19). Last week he tried rousing Elyria, Ohio and so many people (over 600) went to hear him that he called for a League of the Middle Class...
...William Ewart Gladstone...
...last week declared Dr. William Charles White of the National Institute of Health addressing the National Tuberculosis Association in Boston. The hiding gangster he spoke of was the tuberculosis bacillus. Dr. White announced that a grant had been made to study the bacillus under the new world's biggest "cyclotron" or atom-smashing machine at the University of California, which weighs 225 tons and has just produced a record-breaking beam of 19,000,000-volt particles. By stuffing the bacillus with radioactive phosphorus produced in cyclotron bombardments, the California researchers will ry to make it give...
...readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond, the Tribune exulted: WOODSTOCK GETS POSTMASTER, BUT WHO'S DIETER...
...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...