Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of March 22, under the caption "Prayer v. Prophylaxis," in speaking of a bill which the District of Columbia Committee of the House of Representatives had before it in Washington the previous week in regard to eye prophylaxis at birth, the statement is made that "The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a "subcommittee had to be appointed to deal with it."The chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist." You further quote Dr. George C. Ruhland, District Health Officer, as saying...
...when opportunity came again, Daisy Harriman made a mistake. As Democratic National Committeewoman of the District of Columbia she was a member of the District's delegation to the Convention in Chicago. The delegation was for Roosevelt but she unfortunately held out for Newton D. Baker or Melvin Traylor. After Roosevelt's nomination she hastened to repair her mistake...
...least 80 men handpicked by Rodzinski, will broadcast one concert a week for 52 weeks. Toscanini and Rodzinski will each conduct ten as sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...
...Said Nutritionist Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University to the New York Academy of Medicine: ''Simple redistribution of the present expenditures for food, and this without omitting any article of food to which any consumer is accustomed, but merely by easy shifting of relative proportions, can undoubtedly contribute greatly to the advancement of the standard of health and vitality in the coming years" Eaters for longevity should take all the milk, green and yellow vegetables and fruits which they can stomach...
...Robert H. Jackson far and away the most effective advocate of the President's Plan to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Last week that same quality of dispassionate logic, so notably lacking in the Supreme Court debate, appeared for the Opposition when Dean Young Berryman Smith of Columbia Law School eased into the Senate Committee's witness chair...