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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox (Cont'd) | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...major reason for its ratification is the rights of children to health and a fair chance. But it is also important that we have orderly constitutional change instead of pressure on the independence of the Supreme Court." This statement was issued to the press at Palo Alto by Herbert Hoover, his first formal statement since last election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Week's Work | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

While Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs embarked for London where she will again be the guest of U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, in Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. Eula Hull Jacobs denied that her daughter would marry the Embassy's First Secretary Herschel V. Johnson, revealed that Helen was beginning a novel "not about tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Palo Alto School of Aviation Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...things did not go off as planned. As chairman of the Conference the New Deal imported an engineer from Palo Alto, Professor Emeritus William Frederick Durand of Stanford University. That famed expert in aerodynamics made a brilliant beginning by addressing the guests, without the aid of any translators, in English, French, German and Spanish, all of which he speaks fluently. This tour de force was enjoyed by the 650 foreign delegates who showed up. These included : Germany's Herr Doktor Julius Dorpmuller, the pudgy head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third Power, Second Dams | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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