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...Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Oliver B. Dickinson (one of 25 Federal Judge out of favor at the White House, for he is 79), Comptroller of the Currency J. I T. O'Connor, and the two gentlemen who were to do most of the work, Joseph 5 Buford, Chief Assayer of the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan and Dr. F. S. Holbrook of the Bureau of Standards in Washington. Finally, as required by law, the chief testee was on hand: Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint...
...into three sub-committees to undertake their tasks. Task No. 1 was to count the contents of sample bags and de termine that the Mints had set aside as required for testing one silver coin out of every 2,000 minted.** Task No. 2, under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh some 300 sample coins and make...
...mothers first heard of twilight sleep through the enterprise of McClwe's Magazine in June 1914.* Now running in Ladies' Home Journal is a series of blatantly emotional articles called "Why Should Mothers Die?" by Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif. Cried Kansas City's Dr. Buford Garvin Hamilton last week: "American obstetrics seems to be becoming a competitive practice to please American women in accordance with what they read in lay magazines...
...have a quiet time for a while, in spite of his neighbor's nudges. Two events shattered his peace. First, a friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford's cavalry, a mile or so west of Bale's home town. In the first day's fighting Bale lent a hand with the wounded on Seminary Ridge. Next day, with the Union troops driven back, his house was inside the Confederate lines. His mistress chose that...
...dozen publishers' representatives crowded around a linotype machine in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer plant one day last week. No operator sat at the keyboard which was covered by a boxlike apparatus. Into a slot in the box Inventor Buford L. Green, 25 years an Observer employe, fed a sheet of copy typed on translucent paper. Then he turned a switch. To the wonderment of onlookers, the lintoype proceeded to set a galley of accurate type...