Word: doctores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor for casting a slur on his girl, bundled him into the trunk of his own car and then taken his wife searching for him, killed Mrs. Littlefield when she grew suspicious, cruised through six States for three days with his gruesome cargo. After changing the details of this narrative four times, Paul Dwyer...
...Impose stiff penalties on any doctor who unnecessarily or unskillfully performs a major operation (proposed by M. James McGranahan, San Francisco lawyer and chiropractor...
...examples cited by Attorney Arnold of the A. M. A.'s restraint of trade: A G. H. A. doctor who referred a heart case to a specialist was forbidden to consult personally with the specialist and was forced to communicate with him through the mails. A G. H. A. doctor called to an acute appendicitis case at midnight found all the hospitals in Washington barred to him, was forced to relinquish the operation to another surgeon...
Police ordered him in but he threatened to jump if they touched him. "I've got to work this out for myself," he cried. All afternoon, on his twelve-inch-wide perch, he argued with his sister, a priest, a doctor, a minister. He drank a dozen glasses of water, lit countless cigarets, pondered his problem. Should he finish the act the audience of 10,000 was waiting for, or return ignominiously to safety? The afternoon wore on, evening came. Still John Warde had not solved his problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope...
These titles of Ph.D. theses are typical of the lists which proud mothers thumbed last June as their sons stuck their necks out for the bright hoods of the Doctorate of Philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Edgar Wallace Knight, Ph.D.,* Kenan professor of education at the University of North Carolina, guest professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, generally recognized as one of the South's leading teachers of teachers, delivered a diatribe against "fetish worship" of Ph.D. degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D...