Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
Died. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, 54, of the U. S. Public Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
...monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...
Years later Grant flattered himself that he too was a Wall Street potentate, only to learn in tragic finale that again he had been duped, used, ruined. Yet, under stress of terrific pain (cancer) his pathetic persistence in scribbling memoirs that would support his widow is the courageous characteristic that well overshadows faults and stupidities...