Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheinfeld points out that the differences between the "worthy Quakeress and the feeble-minded slattern" cannot account for the differences between the two Kallikak clans. For Old Horror, who was presumably feebleminded, could not, by the law of genetics, have inherited his feeble mind from one parent alone. Only "recessive" genes are involved in feeblemindedness, "which means that such genes must come from both parents for the effect to assert itself." Hence "the worthy Martin Kallikak Sr., himself had to be carrying such genes of feeblemindedness . . . and the 'good' Kallikaks also received some of those genes." Most probably...
...Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds may be 20 to one that you are no more related to him than is any one else in town...
...members are Northerners, for Negro physicians are excluded from Southern county medical associations, hence from the parent A. M. A.* Both Northern and Southern Negro doctors are united in the Negro National Medical Association. Last May, when the A. M. A. held its annual convention in St. Louis, a group of Negro A. M. A. members complained to Secretary Olin West against Southern exclusion, and the col. tag. Later, in Chicago, Dr. West caustically suggested that N. M. A. put their own house in order before criticizing the A. M. A. Flashing a sheaf of documents, he informed an astonished...
...might be able to afford the change, because its parent Radio Corporation of America owns the biggest recording outfit in the U. S. Yet in its time, NBC has okayed only one network recording (the Hindenburg disaster). Last week, however, NBC stepped bravely out. Henceforth Canada Dry's Information Please, staged in Manhattan's Radio City on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 9 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time, will be recorded by Los Angeles' KECA instead of being immediately broadcast when it reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then...
...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...