Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article William E. Johnson, better known to the public as "Pussyfoot" Johnson, explains the real underlying reasons for the provisions of the Volstead prohibition act which restricts the amount of alcohol contained in salable liquors to one-half of one percent. Mr. Johnson has always been one of the foremost advocates of prohibition, and in the past few months has come into international prominence through his campaign to make England dry and through the attack made upon him by a crowd of English students, who caused the loss of one of his eyes. Returned to this country...
When knockout drops in the form of the Volstead Act for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment were served up to John Barleycorn last January, the Anti Saloon League thought he had passed out forever form American life. Temporarily he had, but the combination of wood alcohol and the W. C. T. U.'s "Tobacco Next" campaign showed that, like Mark Twain, his obituary notice was "greatly exaggerated...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. Percy G. Stiles will give a talk on "Some Aspects of Alcohol" at the Medical School on Longwood Avenue. The lecture will be open to the public and no admission will be charged. Those who wish to secure seats are urged to be at the lecture hall promptly as the doors will be closed at five minutes after the hour...
...physicians and dentists are now co-operating to find to what extent rheumatism and similar ailments may be traced to defective teeth. On February 29 Dr. Frederick T. Lord '97 will speak on pneumonia. On March 7 Dr. Percy G. Stiles will take as his topic "Some Aspects of Alcohol." On March 14 Dr. W. T. Bovie, G.R., '14, will set forth some new conceptions on the construction of matter. One of the outstanding features of the present work of the Harvard Medical School, the researches in industrial medicine, will suggest the topic of the March 21 lecture which will...
March 7.--Dr. Percy G. Stiles, "Some Aspects of Alcohol...