Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 79, Hindu physicist and botanist; of a heart attack; at Giridih, India. Famed for his assertion that plants have hearts, nerves, emotions, intellections, he demonstrated by experiment that every stimulus-light, electric shock, alcohol, drugs-affects plants as well as animals...
January 9, Harry R. De Silva, lecturer on Motor Vehicles Administration, "Men, Motor Cars, and Alcohol"; January 16, Shields Warren, assistant professor of Pathology, "Cancer"; January 23, Paul E. Boyle, instructor in Pathology, "Teeth"; January 30, Frederick E. Russel, professor of Preventive Medicine, "Progress in Preventive Medicine...
...many winter sports was delivering a long and vigorous talk to the first meeting of candidates for positions on the team. In polished oratorical manner he earnestly told the boys about the advantages of keeping strict training, not smoking, and above all of staying away from the evils of alcohol. Not content with merely issuing such negative orders, he decided to start the ball rolling in positive fashion, and so announced that starting on the following day, all men, who were so inclined, were to report at his room at five o'clock; from there a daily cross country...
...equipment which was used at New York is now in the Hemenway Gym, and in December will be operated from time to time by the Bureau in further research. The effects of alcohol will be studied, it is reported...
...against liquor." Philadelphia's 20 juries represented not only the usual teachers, parents, businessmen, high-school students, ministers, mothers but a jury of twelve "redeemed men" from the city's Whosoever Mission. The chief justice (Judge Welsh) read them a charge which urged them to consider whether Alcohol is guilty of various capital crimes committed by people under its influence, of causing poverty, insanity and bodily disability. The juries could, if they wished, make use of "canned" verdicts written by Dr. Russell and condemning alcohol to death in rather elaborate language. The 20 Philadelphia juries, however, simply judged...