Word: even
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Attorney General and on this Presidents invariably consult the American Bar Association. Secretary of State is of less definite, more external importance, causing a President to calculate how his Administration will be regarded by other nations. Then, having suited Capital, Bench & Bar, and the World at Large, and even before choosing his Postmaster General (political patronage man), the President must think of Labor. Always a wise President tries to please Labor's main organized body, the American Federation of Labor (some 3,000,000 votes...
Canada's wheat pool is the biggest on Earth. Yet for a whole year the honor of being General Manager of its central selling agency has gone begging. Even last week nobody wanted it. Said Pool President A. J. MacPhail at Winnipeg...
...paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected. In the U. S. and Europe some five dozen children, some of them in the early paralytic stages, have received treatment. All recovered. Their recoveries warranted last week's report: Infantile paralysis serum is now available in quantity...
...Dornier Corp. of America, subsidiary of General Aviation Corp. (dominated by General Motors), which was interested in no South American flight. Dr. Claude Dornier left the craft in La Coruna, Spain and hurried to Berlin, supposedly to ask the transportation ministry to back him in the new venture. Even before he arrived, Air Director Ernst Brandenburg made known that the answer would be: "No funds available." Definite information was scanty...
...sell the idea to his company. Big Detroiters backed him after he got enough contracts from automobile makers to keep the proposed company busy. This was, of course, Michigan Steel. Last year when he formed Great Lakes Steel he sold $20,000,000 worth of stock to friends without even a prospectus, had the satisfaction of seeing the issue oversubscribed by 50%. His only compensation was the right to buy within five years 20,000 shares at $50, the offering price. Handsome, eloquent, self-assured, he seldom works less than twelve hours a day, is called Busiest Man in Detroit...