Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chest-Testers...
...cities) is taken for granted, community activities center around the churches. "The Girl Scouts meet in the basement of the church, the Parent-Teachers Association in the Parish House . . . One of the local ministers opens the luncheon meeting of Rotary or the annual drive of the Community Chest . . . There exists the closest and most intimate bond between the Catholic Church and some locals of the United Automobile Workers or the United Steel Workers, between Protestant churches and some locals of the Rubber Workers, or between Jewish congregations and the Garment Workers locals in New York...
...classical music the hi-fi way, seeks out exotic jazz dives when he gets a chance, lunches periodically at Pittsburgh's tony Duquesne Club. Three years ago he was honored by the biggest names of Pittsburgh on Dave McDonald Day. At home he works for the local Community Chest, the Rosalia Foundling & Maternity Hospital, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Parents' Athletic Council of Mount Lebanon. He is a member of the Government's Export-Import Bank advisory committee, and was a member of the Randall Commission, which surveyed foreign economic policy...
Abandoned Clichés. Many a battle-scarred unionist snorts at Dave McDonald's airs and the fact that, never baring his chest to the furnaces, he came to the Steelworkers' presidency on the white-collar route. Yet McDonald is, in fact, far more in tune with his times than his classconscious critics. In the phenomenal growth of the competitive U.S. economy over the past four years, most of the old labor-management clichés have gone out the window. Labor and management still argue and labor still strikes, but enlightened leaders on both sides know more...
...Snyder," writes Donovan, "listened to Eisenhower's chest with a stethoscope and took his pulse and tested his blood pressure . . . It took only two or three minutes for Snyder to come to the grave conclusion that the President of the U.S. was suffering from a coronary thrombosis." Snyder immediately began specific treatment for a coronary...