Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stellar role of a film entitled The Man Who Could Work Miracles (But Won't). The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the Conference in fact as the designated representative of the Prime Minister, and Mr. Baldwin had interrupted the three-month holiday he is taking on doctor's orders to come to London last week and go over the speech Mr. Chamberlain was to make at Margate...
...miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government pol icy toward self-help co-operatives nearly wrecks it. Sig Soren (now happily mar ried to the girl who escaped from the white slavers) visits Washington, confers with President Roosevelt, and the book ends...
...casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across the river to his own camp. The grandfather, a backwoods philosopher who reads Shakespeare, carves wooden figures and talks "noble platitudes" to the girl, also cares for her during her pregnancy, gets a wealthy New Orleans doctor who is his friend to deliver the child, drives a lingering sense of shame and guilt from Sister's mind...
Introduced by her grandfather to the intellectual life, by the doctor's wife to sophisticated social and artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency...
Beside these changes in equipment and physical setup Dr. Bock has added one more full-time doctor to the staff on Hodyoke Street. Dr. Murray is now employed all day and another man has been obtained to take the half time position he filled last year...