Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate a few weeks ago Homer Truett Bone, small desiccated senior Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill...
...time Senator Bone's bill and companion bills sponsored by Representatives Bulwinkle of North Carolina and Maverick of Texas came up for public hearings. Half the cancer specialists of the country, persuaded by Dr. Lewis Ryers Thompson, assistant surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, appeared to testify. Franklin Roosevelt, sitting in his office, last week squiggled his signature and the Bone-Bulwinkle Bill became...
...gives the National Institute of Health, which Dr. Thompson heads, $750,000 to build a laboratory in which the many-sided cancer problem may be studied, and $700,000 for a year's expenses. Gloated Dr. Thompson: "This is the equivalent of the income from...
...money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken for the new buildings at Bethesda, where the Government's newly subsidized cancer research will take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose...
...YOUR GUARD-Carl Warren, Dailv Jews reporter-Emerson Books (Manhattan) < $1.00). get the bills ironed out and to testify that, if Congress earmarked $1,000,000 or more every year for cancer research, he could save the lives of 20,000 of the 140,000 people who die of cancer in the U. S. each year...