Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have already been 2,716 applicants for the prize of $100,000 offered last year by Lord Atholstan, of Montreal, for the discovery of a cure for cancer. Claims have come from 41 different countries. Before application the claimants must satisfy a recognized medical faculty or society that there is scientific justification for investigating their "cures...
Died: Samuel D. Nicholson, junior United States senator from Colorado, of cancer of the liver, at Denver. (See Page...
...April number of Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine. Mr. Justice Joseph Morschauser (also of the New York State Supreme Court-who presided at the Stillman case and other divorce suits) advocated the abolition of divorce in the United States. "Divorce," said he, "is a cancer in the vitals of American life. . . . From my experience on the bench I know that halfway reforms are ineffective. The only way to cure the evils of divorce is to completely abolish divorce." This he proposes to do eventually by Constitutional amendment, but more immediately by refusing to recognize decrees granted to Americans...
...University has received a payment of $100,000 from the $200,000 legacy left for cancer research under the will of the late Hiram F. Mills of Quincy...
...Mills, who died in October, 1921, made his bequest in memory of his wife, for the establishment at the University of the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund, the income "to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer". The money will be applied to the support of important research work being carried on for this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation...