Word: careful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious, hideously painful disease.* A few more became ill in 1936 and 1937. The disease was first diagnosed as poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). It was not. The Los Angeles press howled. Doctors were accused of incompetence, hospital officials of carelessness. Grand juries investigated. The county shouldered the bill for the care of the victims, which has now reached about $1,000,000. One newspaper charged that there was nothing really the matter with the patients except "weak muscles...
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...such its actions were not open to public censure. If--and this of course is purely hypothetical--Radcliffe girls have stooped so low as to drink sherry at times, that is their own private problem, provided there are no college rules to the contrary. No one seems to care what a Harvard student drinks, or where. Thus it seems odd, even sad, that Radcliffe morals and stomachs should be valued so much more highly, particularly when the alleged debauchery took place in impeccable surroundings...
...control, would be welcome, it is education. Up to the present time the government has spent millions on the W.P.A. for different public works as well as for unemployed professionals. It cannot hope to abolish "glaring inequalities" in the fullest sense without establishing a similar administration to take care of the funds now destined for state commissions. For it is absurd to think that appropriations that are granted to Southern states will be used for negro as well as white education. It is absurd to think that politicians in states having a large Catholic population will not for electioneering purposes...
...investigation. Hearings ended last summer and last week the Federal Communications Commission report was in the hands of Chairman Frank R. McNinch, almost ready to be submitted to Congress. Therefore, in making his annual report last week, A. T. & T. President Walter S. Gifford took care to get his word in first. "This country," observed Mr. Gifford, "is entitled in good times and bad to the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost." Referring to the FCC report: Said he: "This investigation . . . has been one-sided throughout. The company was denied not only the right to cross-examine...