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...Reformed Church in America, who dedicated her life to the fight against plague, cholera and leprosy, and who in 1918 started in Vellore, India what is today one of Asia's foremost clinic-medical schools, with current support coming from more than 40 missions;* of a circulatory ailment; in Kodaikanal, India...
Profit on Oldsters. Continental lost money on its original health-insurance plan (oldsters tend to wait until they have an ailment before taking out a policy). But as the number of policyholders in the over-65 age group increased, Continental made 33% profit last year. In the trial areas for the new "5,000 Reserve" policy, more than 7,000 oldsters eagerly signed up, and in Illinois 27.2% of the 65-Plus policyholders applied for the larger plan as well. With ever-increasing volume. Continental argues that it can turn insurance for the aged into a profitable line...
...idea man who thought up the pay-as-you-go tax plan, got it accepted by a reluctant Congress in 1943 with the support of much of the press and, according to a Gallup poll, 83% of the nation's rich, 86% of its poor; of a heart ailment; in Danbury, Conn, on the day U.S. taxes became due. After a lively term as dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933. Ruml became treasurer of Macy's, overhauled its accounting system. Some of his ideas found their way into the New Deal...
Died. Toyohiko Kagawa, 72, Japan's foremost Christian social worker, the son of a nobleman and his concubine, who was converted to Christianity at 15, went to live in the harrowing slums of Kobe where he contracted both tuberculosis and trachoma helping the poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists...
...Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan...