Word: akin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus saving hours for the passengers, hours and dollars for the ship's operators (TIME, Feb. 1). The Hansa was one of 84 ships having this privilege...
...radio pratique, he decided that the fever and nausea among the Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running to telephone Dr. Akin. He suspected that the Hansa had typhoid...
Chief Quarantine Officer Akin snapped into action, ordered everyone quarantined aboard the docked Hansa. All passengers, however, had dispersed. To each went warnings by telephone or telegram advising him to beware of typhoid fever (which takes about two weeks to incubate), and to have doctors examine his blood, urine and stools for germs. Dr. Akin exploded: "This physician certified to my department that there was no prevalence of any dangerous or infectious disease on board, and if the presence of 24 people suffering with fever as high as 103°, nausea, weakness and headaches does not indicate the existence...
...hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent of the great retrenchment. Reassuring to the staff of his Chicago Herald & Examiner last week was a statement from the Chief that no modification, consolidation, suspension or sale of that property was contemplated. Yet the fact remained...
...President of Eire, with authority akin to that of a U. S. President, will be the State's No. 1 man, elected directly by the people for seven years and ineligible for a second term. He will appoint the prime minister, cabinet, judiciary, will be head of the defense forces, must pen his signature to bills passed by the legislature before they can become law. The President will not be answerable to the legislature, cannot be prosecuted for crimes civil or criminal, can be impeached only for ''treason or high crimes" by a two-thirds majority...