Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years after his son's death from cancer, William Henry Donner, steel man, last week gave $2,000,000 for research in cancer. The gift, administered by a new International Cancer Research Foundation, was one of the largest ever sent to war against a particular division of disease...
...years ago Dr. James Ewing, generalissimo of the world's anti-cancer forces, recommended that six $10,000,000 institutions be erected in different parts of the U. S. to attack cancer on all its fronts. Mr. Donner and his advisers* do not entirely agree. None of his $2,000,000 may be spent for buildings. No one institution is to get more than 35% of the income. Not less than 35% of the income nor more than 50% must be spent outside of the U. S. Mr. Donner hopes ''that this policy . . . will result in more...
...famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing. Donner millions might thus have been allocated to investigations in Dr. Cushing's neurosurgical field. Or they might have been marshaled against infantile paralysis, from which Governor Roosevelt has suffered. But a strong Donner trait is immediacy of action, and cancer killed his own son, Joseph William Donner...
...foundations with an estimated $950,000,000 total capital. In 19-30 they spent $18,627,223 (2%): against cancer $17,529, pneumonia $25,000, heart disease $3,800, children's diseases $605,898, mental disease $936,000, optical ailments $75,416, diphtheria $65,000, tuberculosis $39,885, disease in general...
Before he sailed from Montreal last week for an inspection of Europe's cancer situation, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Floffman, Prudential Insurance Co.'s peripatetic consultant, prepared for The Spectator (insurance weekly) an analysis of the acknowledged U. S. suicides...