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There was a time when U.S. Congressmen suffered chiefly from high blood pressure, colds and constipation. They still have the colds, says the legislators' doctor, George Wehnes Calver. But Congress' high blood pressure now has a more stylish name: hypertension...
...Evan Owen Jones of Los Angeles. Slim, blue-eyed, 21, Signalman Jones had in 1939 been valedictorian of his class at Los Angeles' Fremont High School, had entitled his address "A Young Man Asks Questions." Before House Sergeant-At-Arms Kenneth Romney and Capitol Physician Dr. George W. Calver, who quickly exonerated him of all charges of drunkenness or neurosis, he said: "Those people in there are fighting the Civil War all over again. They've got to work together more to help this country. I believe we have the best government anywhere. We are fighting to keep...
...been the amebic dysentery which Representatives Tom D. McKeown of Oklahoma, William E. Hess of Ohio and John C. Lehr of Michigan contracted in Chicago last October while studying bankruptcy receiverships there. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant-at-arms, who was with the Representatives, also caught the disease. Dr. Calver sent them all to Naval Hospital in Washington for a full course of treatment...
...House of Representatives considers Dr. Calver its own attendant and gratefully this spring passed a resolution to promote him from a commander to a rear-admiral. Senators, who make fewer calls on Dr. Calver, resolved to make him a temporary captain while the Navy kept him detailed to duty at the Capitol. In conference the House and Senate compromised on a bill promoting Dr. Calver to the permanent rank and pay of a Navy captain...
That compromise, however, has not yet been brought back for a vote, because the potent Navy lobby is bitterly opposing the jumping of Commander Calver over his seagoing seniors. Washington private practitioners resent Dr. Calver's free treatment to Congressional secretaries, wives, families, visitors. However, he gives non-members only emergency treatments. Regular patients are primarily Senators and Representatives (Vice President Garner is an assiduous client) and a few of their former colleagues, like onetime Vice President Charles Curtis. A stronger hindrance developed last week. John Raymond McCarl, comptroller-general, let it be known that Congress could promote...