Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif; Guthrie McClintic. producer). After the Spanish-American War, in which more U. S. soldiers were killed by yellow fever than in battle, the War Department sent a medical commission to Cuba to find, if possible, the cause and cure of this deadly tropical disease. The commission was headed by Dr. Walter Reed. With him was Dr. James Carroll. In Cuba they found Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, European-trained microbiologist, and Cuban Dr. Aristides Agramonte...
...Much was said in the hearings about the so-called failure of NRA to cure un employment and produce recovery. That charge also flows from an omission to recognize that NRA is only one piece in the whole mosaic of the President's recovery program...
Kiev and discovered a black-bearded peasant chopping wood in the monastery garden, who claimed that he could cure the Tsarevitch...
...dramatic action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
...idea that American recognition of the Mendieta government would prove to be a magic cure-all for the ills of Cuba has been pretty thoroughly punctured by the news that all constitutional guarantees have been suspended as a result of a general strike. There is very little evidence that Mendieta has or ever had the confidence of the country. He owes his accession to power solely to the discriminatory use which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba...