Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...
...Hoover received another visitor and another Cabinet rumor was dispelled. This caller was U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow. He had come to Belle Isle after a rest cure at Nassau. The short, chipper Ambassador, oft-mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of State, talked for two hours with the President-Elect. Then he all but told newsmen that Mr. Hoover preferred to keep him in Mexico, where the sedative Morrow influence has been worthy and unprecedented...
...There is no known drug or combination of drugs which will prevent or cure influenza." Thus downrightly did Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Department of Agriculture fortify his last week's attack against bad & misleading medical advertisements. With the spread of the influenza epidemic pernicious drug vendors cried new merits for their proprietaries...
...Indeed, if faith and loyalty could cure King George, he would rise from his bed today...
...than philanthropical. Just before the War ended, the Garvan's baby Patricia, a lovely child, developed rheumatic fever following influenza. Some of the best of the country's physicians, drawn into consultation, confessed themselves utterly powerless to save her. She died. Doctors know not yet how to cure rheumatic fever not even its cause. In search of cause & cure of that disease and of a score of others the Garvans are quietly giving their money. A footnote to their unobtrusiveness is the fact that Mr. Garvan, in his Who's Who autobiography, mentions neither their benefactions...