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...depended on his health, he said. Repeated trips to the hospital and one major operation had failed to cure his chronic high blood pressure. He was headed for another physical checkup on Sept. 1. If the doctor ordered him to give up one of his jobs, he would keep the Cabinet job and let the committee chairmanship...
This week Liberty, another chronic money-loser, tried a new tack to get out of the red tide and into the black. Except for a couple of war years, it had gone profitless under Founders Joseph M. Patterson and Robert R. McCormick. And it had failed to pay its way for their successors, Bernarr Macfadden and Paul Hunter. A weekly until last February and a fortnightly since, Liberty (circ. 1,600,000) will now be a 10? monthly...
...expensive speaker," warned New York City's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a letter to Milwaukee's Town Hall. He sounded pretty chipper for a man who had just had a serious operation for chronic pancreatitis (in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital). "I want $1,000. For that money you can get a lot of better speakers. If you still want me, sign here." Milwaukee signed...
...Between 1910 and 1945, said the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the "female rate of chronic alcoholism" dropped from...
Most of the office's difficulties arise out of the chronic tendency for wearied Seniors to put off the employment problem until all other obligations and festivities are cleared. Fitting the man to the proper job is a time consuming process which is best accomplished through a series of conferences and investigations. Teele has little but consolation for the lackadaisical applicant...