Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. President Hoover summoned the governors of these twelve states to a White House conference this week to devise specific plans for relief. Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board prepared to fly back from his "crusade" in Idaho to Washington to attend this meeting. Ohio's crop loss was estimated at $200,000,000, Kentucky's at $100,000,000, Missouri's $115,000,000. Husbandmen, despairing of carrying their stock through the winter without fodder, were selling their cattle at ruinous losses...
...England and Germany, where doctors are listed on panels like jurymen. In England some 39,000 doctors are so paneled. To each is allowed up to 1,000 of the population. The sick under the insurance plan must go to one of these doctors. He willy-nilly must attend to them, at a fixed sum from the government...
Black. English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish were the nurses chosen to attend George V during his desperate illness (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.). Last week Irishwomen were one up on Englishwomen, Scotch-women, Welshwomen. Nurse Catherine Black (Irish) was appointed permanent nurse to His Majesty, installed at Buckingham Palace in comfortable chambers...
...nonLeague brokers, to procure an order dissolving the League. Their charge: the League constitutes a monopoly operating in restraint of trade. They illustrated the social usefulness of small "scalpers" thus: New Jersey's Governor Morgan F. Larson last week visited Manhattan with a party of 15 to attend Earl Carroll's Vanities, popular legshow on which the Law has frowned. Unable to obtain sufficient tickets from League brokers he resorted to "scalpers." If "scalpers" are scotched, Attorney Sandier pointed out, last-minute theatre parties such as Governor Larson's will be impossible. Attorney General Ward pondered, unofficially...
Some 700 eminent bacteriologists crowded into the smallish assembly hall of the Paris Pasteur Institute last week to attend the first International.Microbio-logical Congress. Elderly scientists who had not seen each other since before the War, pushed beaming through the throng for handclasps and greetings. Great names from text books and professional journals nodded acknowledgment to introductions: "Professor [Jules] Bordet, director of the Brussels Pasteur Institute . . . Professor [Pierre Paul Emile] Roux, director of this Paris Pasteur Institute. . . . That is Dr. [Richard] Pfeiffer of Berlin . . . Dr. [Georgef] Fontes, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg...