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...Doubting Thomas that many of the states and the Continental Congress had to guarantee the soldiers a bonus and pension for life before they would engage in the war. And if you are still unconvinced I need only add that George Washington, the father of his country, and Abraham Lincoln, the son, were both advocates of such a policy in the wars that occurred when they were Commanders-in-Chief of the American forces...
Glaring at Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 61, who translated Dr. Freud's books into English and introduced psychoanalysis to the U. S., Internist Harold Thomas Hyman, 41, began by denouncing the $10 an hour fee which psychoanalysts ordinarily charge for their services. Most patients, Dr. Hyman estimated, require 375 talking treatments before they end their course. Cried...
...other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates for their "gallantry" in capturing a Confederate railroad train at Big Shanty...
...from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often be kept in children's institutions with immunity but if allowed in the community will apparently seek an adult partner on the street." -Drs. Lauretta Bender & Abraham Blau, Manhattan...
Ralph R. Hultgren, Bernard M. Jacobson, Lionel S. Marks, Valy Menkin, Elmer D. Merrill, Abraham Myerson, Robert G. Noyes, Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Jabez C. Street, George Wald, Thomas Whittemore, Clyde E. Keeler, Jacob P. Den Hartog, and Yellapragada Subba...