Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another notable office utility first reported last week was an obtundent (desensitizing) paste developed by Manhattan's Drs. Harold Aaron Osserman and Abraham Taub. Like Manhattan's Dr. Leroy L. Hartman's painkiller which attracted attention last year (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the new obtundent is supposed to deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect...
...Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...
Birthday. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, U. S. A. retired, 100, oldest man in the Army roll, veteran of the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion; in West Roxbury, Mass. On his 98th birthday the House of Representatives congratulated him. On his 99th birthday he received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. On his 100th birthday President Roosevelt wrote to congratulate him "personally as well as officially...
...Edward Larrabee Barnes 108 George Frederick Lowman 106 Morris Earle 104 Nathaniel Goddard Benchley 99 Herbert Bruce Griswold 97 Sheldon Ware 88 Wiley Edward Mayne 82 Gibson Winter 82 Caspar Willard Weinberger 79 Robert Wells Snyder 76 Peter Thacher Brooks 75 James Sinclair Armstron 59 Richard Talliesyn Davis 59 Aaron Jerome Himelhoch 56 Philip Truman Shahan 52 Paul Massik 46 Carlos Colton Daughaday, Jr. 45 Alvah Woodbury Sulloway 42 Joseph Franklin 30 1939 Ballot *Francis Austin Harding, Jr. 132 *Richard Howard Sullivan 120 *Joseph Spence Harvin 106 Charles Lee Burwell 105 Richard Peter Hedblom 95 Cleveland Amory 82 Richard Stanwood...
...Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!", is therefor sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at sea with no word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short...