Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly at Kent in Connecticut, a new resident doctor...
Instead the railway doctor who has just prescribed for Mexico was found in Canada. He is Sir Henry Worth Thornton, since 1922 chairman of the Board and president of the Canadian National Railways. Last week the secret of his recent suspiciously informal visit to Mexico with Canadian railway colleagues was finally revealed...
Observers took keen interest in the fact that young, spirited, dynamic Finance Minister Montes de Oca has swallowed with such enthusiasm the Canadian doctor's bulky capsule: denationalization of railways. In Mexico, where advanced social theorizing is typical of even elder politicians, young Minister Montes de Oca might well have aspired to become a benevolent Railway Tsar...
Because so much now depends upon reorganization of the railways, Mexicans manifested lively interest last week in their Canadian railway doctor. Sir Henry Worth Thornton, though a Knight, and though president of the Canadian National Railways, was born in the U. S. at Logansport, Ind., 56 years ago. Both his first and second wives were U. S. born. The Pennsylvania Railroad took him on in the Engineering Department (1894), advanced him steadily, and in 1911 handed over to him the General Superintendentship of the Long Island railroad, a post which he had held for three years...
...happened so generally in Japan, especially a generation ago, Noguchi's sister had toiled with their family to get him an education. They saw that he had his private tutors in English, French and German, that he attended the Tokyo Medical College. When he became a doctor (1897) he got an assistantship at the Tokyo General Hospital; and thereafter his way was his own. He always kept an affectionate contact with his family...