Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points in the kind of campaign he would like in 1952: he wants the Democratic nominee to run against Warren G. Harding, and he doesn't want the Truman foreign policy discussed at all. The Republicans' Robert Taft, who has charged that the Truman Administration's "fatal mistakes" make foreign policy the biggest issue in the campaign, was quick to react. "President Truman," he said, "should certainly get the prize for political effrontery...
This was a placid gathering. The biggest issue that might have thrown it into turmoil was deferred when 65-year-old Phil Murray, recovered from an almost fatal illness, agreed to carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
Correlating physical types with fatal diseases, the scientists find that 21 percent of deaths were due to blood-clotting causing heart failure. Stocky men with under-par muscularity were the usual victims of coronary thrombosis and cancer. Tuberculosis claimed many tall, muscular men of light build while passing up heavier individuals of greater fleshiness...
...government of honesty and integrity in Washington, and the elimination of this influence-peddling and corruption which has been shown in so many government departments under this administration. Number three is an attack on the judgment of the present administration's foreign policy as revealed by the fatal mistakes they have made ... in the building up of Russia, and the Korean War and other disastrous occurrences due to their judgment...
...forms of cancer are so terrifying as cancer of the stomach. It is one of the most difficult to detect in its early stages; neglected, it usually proves quickly fatal, and most cases are discovered too late. There are more than 30,000 new cases in the U.S. each year, and by present estimates, only one victim in 100 can expect to be cured...