Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Famed Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson of Boston declared last week that he successfully used electric shocks for 40 cases of early depression. Dr. Lauren Howe Smith and colleagues of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital claimed that electric shock calmed noisy patients in the wards cut their length of stay in half...
...with the Government before. Last year, first as $1-a-year timber expert, then as head of the Wartime Requirements Board, he cut through red tape like a buzz saw through a log. He studied Canada's lagging war effort, submitted a vast reorganization plan to Clarence D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply. But his methods were too direct; before his plan went through, he was eased out. Minister Howe said Mac Millan had been "sabotaged" by jealous politicians, that whenever the Government decided to give him a freer hand, Lumberman MacMillan would come back. Last week, when...
First letter (from Pollock to Holmes) is dated 1874; the last (from Holmes to Pollock) is dated 1932. What they wrote in between fills two volumes of 275 and 309 pages, superbly edited by Biographer Mark DeWolfe Howe. When they began writing each other letters, Holmes was 33, Pollock, 28. When they stopped writing Holmes was 91. They wrote through eight wars and nine revolutions. During all this troubled time the two men sat at or near the heart of government of the world's two greatest powers. But they did not write about wars and revolutions in their...
...like other pupils reverently snitched the hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised Mr. Bagby to make his paper into a lecture. The Bagby lectures, with piano accompaniment, turned into plushy concerts...
Nearly three years ago TNEC ("Monopoly Committee") asked SEC to investigate insurance. To make the investigation (which they limited to legal reserve life insurance), SEC appointed Ernest J. Howe and Gerhard A. Gesell. For weeks their report has been ready, emitting occasional hisses like a buried bomb, waiting for TNEC Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney to make up his mind to release it. Last week he did so. The explosion was loud. But very few people got hurt...