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Plumpish Dr. George Wehnes Calver, official attending physician to the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, talked very small last week. Friends in both chambers spoke to him affectionately: "It is a low-down mean shame. . . ." But Dr. Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws...
This special session of Congress Com-mander Calver and the two enlisted men who help him have not been very busy. They maintain health charts for all Congressmen and frequently check up on the members' hearts and blood pressure. Most calls have been for colds and constipation. But last Congress Dr. Calver's tiny force earned its salt. Most dramatic incident occurred when Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood...
...floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried to catch him as he fell. A dozen Representatives leaped forward into the well, picked up his lifeless body, carried it to the lobby. House Physician Dr. George Calver worked vainly over it. Mrs. Eslick hurried down from the gallery where she had been listening to her husband's speech. Members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force gaped from the gallery in awe-stricken silence. The House adjourned after the first death on its floor in 98 years...
Speaker Garner, pointing out that Dr. George Wehnes Calver, the House physician, had said overwork hastened both Representatives' end, advised: "Ease up." Already noticeable was the "easing up" process in the House which of late has been marking time on unimportant legislation...
Harvard 6, Dartmouth 3: Modell (H) defeated Berger (D), 5-3; Stoodley (D), 5-2; Calver (D), 5-3. Copeland (H) defeated Berger (D), 5-3; Studley (D), 5-1. Oettinger (H) defeated Calver (D), 5-2. Calver (D) defeated Copeland (H), 5-1. Stoodley (D) defeated Oettinger (H), 5-2. Berger (D) defeated Oettinger...