Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Company Doctor Halstead G. Murray was proud to report to the American Medical Association at Minneapolis last June. But he was obliged to admit that even after nine years, half of the Dennison executives take no exercise in winter...
...Cheney of Chicago, doctor of a discreetly unknown company, had acted far more drastically than Dr. Murray; at Minneapolis he had spoken far more emphatically. Said he: "More than 99% of our executives are troubled with constipation. ... I have also found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise...
...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
...Attracted by the cries of his secretary, policemen, passing in a car, drove in but they were too ignorant to be of any help. With them in their car the policemen had two captured thieves who, straining in their handcuffs to do a good deed, pumped and wiggled the doctor until he began to breathe again...
...scheme was to form a money pool of shrewd, rich friends and buy out the scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...