Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topics were notable by omission- labor and funded debt. The latter is significant since Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which will chaperon the report in the Senate, firmly believes that top-heavy funded debt is the roads' chief ailment. Knowing this and well remembering that the similar Splawn proposals died in Congress, the railroad industry last week was not too sanguine of legislative help. But Franklin Roosevelt still sat pretty, for if Congress again refuses to act he cannot be blamed...
...University of Chicago has provided a professorship for Eduard Benes-as Washington College at Lexington, Va. provided one for Lee- as soon as Czechoslovakia's last President will take it. But the tired little man was seriously ill. His ears were being treated for an ailment which has affected his sense of balance...
...ailment may have a psychological cause and appear indistinguishable from a genuine organic disease. Doctors used to treat such hysteria with hypnosis, now try psychoanalysis. Addie Belle's deafness prevents this sort of treatment...
...COMMON AILMENT, Dodge Publishing...
When he diagnosed Hitler's ailment as a "simple polyp" (small benign growth, round and stemmed like a pea), on his larynx, Hitler refused at first to believe him. The Chancellor had been convinced that he had cancer. Removal of the polyp from the larynx, a simple throat-cutting operation that many a physician (and layman) would be glad to have the chance to do for Herr Hitler, was very easy...