Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners in ill health...
While U.S. marshals bundled Curley off to serve 6 to 18 months in the federal prison at Danbury, Conn., Boston quietly saw to it that Democrat Curley would get the best of care. The state legislature voted to pay him his $20,000-a-year salary while he was in jail. Then the obliging legislature upped ruddy, 49-year-old City Clerk John B. Hynes, a political unknown, to the office of temporary mayor. Salary: $20,000. In or out of jail, sick or hale, Jim Curley still seemed to have official Boston firmly by the tail...
...Thing Would Help. Moische is making money. But his troubles are by no means over. "My wife," he said, "has been quite sick again lately. We have the new baby now, which makes three of us besides myself; it is difficult for her to take care of everything." The wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food...
...come from far or near. Perhaps those who must pay their "protection" fee without expecting ever to benefit by a single nickel's worth of medical services would feel less defrauded if they could know that their contribution helped guarantee every Harvard student the best and most complete medical care possible. But such is not the case...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield do not cover minor illnesses such as colds and sore throats. On this score the Hygiene Department has the advantage; yet the cost of caring for such minor ailments must not constitute a very considerable proportion of the Department's expenses, since all the patient usually receives is advice to go buy a box of aspirin and a package of cough drops at Billings and Stover. Should the student require x-rays, anesthetics, special materials, or special laboratory examinations, he must pay for them himself. Care in Stillman is limited to one week per term...