Word: attendents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin-American governments, he issued a call, provided for at last winter's Pan-American Conference, for "plenipotentiary jurisconsults" to attend in Washington on December 10 a Pan-American war-condemning conference...
...automobile and airplane, by train and on foot, some 12,500 Rotarians arrived in Minneapolis last week to attend the 19th annual convention of Rotary International. Rotarians from Czechoslovakia or other strange places were welcomed in their own tongue by means of painted placards whose wording was the result of much Minneapolis scholarship. Four and a half thousand autos were used to carry the Rotarians about the city; 80 typists copied registration lists so that no Rotarian might remain unnoticed. Before long all the Rotarians gathered in the municipal auditorium, second largest in the U. S., third in the world...
Stethoscope scientists swarmed to Portland, Ore., last week to attend the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a large proportion of pulmonary patients are public charges and every relapse doubles the original cost of care. The "cure to end the cure" costs comparatively little and has far reaching benevolent effects, according to figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping off to sleep again as soon as he is left alone. It has been used to bring on "twilight sleep" in obstetrics...
Hardly less contemptible than the politicians were well-meaning preachers who hired gambling dens for prayer-meetings, and bribed notorious gangsters to attend. Amused and contemptuous, the gangs whirled merrily on down the broad way that leadeth to destruction, their activities culminating in the wholesale looting and burning and carnage known as the 1863 Draft Riots (Lincoln's conscription decree...