Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blodgett's main defect, as the committee views it, in his enthusiasm for more salary. He was, it is claimed, placed in the Presidency by bankers who had control of the Company, although he was quite innocent of any knowledge of the chewing-gum industry. Blodgett, however, apparently knew a trick worth two of that. His salary was increased from $20,000 to $50,000; and the increase was made retroactive for the previous year and a quarter. In the opinion of the committee the business did not warrant this munificence...
...single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place of a defect in another. For instance, a strip of flesh will be dissected from the upper arm, leaving one end attached, and the free end grafted in place on the face, maintaining continuous blood supply. After the upper end is healed, and circulation established, the lower end may be cut away...
Fifteen years ago there was no organized effort in any nation to combat mental disease and defect. Conditions in institutions for the insane and feeble-minded had advanced little since the time when "Bedlam" was first contracted from "St. Mary's of Bethlehem," an English asylum. The idea of forestalling and preventing the development of mental disorders was a novelty...
...Blythe said in part: "The real defect of the Harding Administration, as it reacts on the people, is that it doesn't make noise enough. It isn't showy enough. It is too calm. . . . This man Harding is neither noisy nor brilliant, in the showy acceptance of that term. He is not loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk...
Theodore Roosevelt felt this defect in the wording of the Anti-Trust Law, and on June 3, 1911, wrote in The Outlook: "What is urgently needed is the enactment of drastic and far-reaching legislation which shall put the great Inter-State business corporations of the type of the Standard...