Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
Reported Dr. Herbert Pollack of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly the Army's chief medical consultant in the ETO: the powdered-milk-&-egg mixture, which is 50% whole protein, was fed to 92,000 liberated G.I.s, of whom 40% were suffering from severe malnutrition, and another 40% were undernourished. Only eight died (a few others were killed by kindness when sympathetic soldiers and civilians threw them indigestible foods as they rode westward from Germany). Wounded and post-operative patients, fed this same bland mixture, were up & about in a third less time than had been customary. Pollack...
...redfaced New York Athletic Commission, as fed up as Sugar Ray was, promptly took the title away from Servo, ordered an elimination among other welterweights to see who would fight Robinson. The winner would be champion of the state of New York only: the National Boxing Association still called Servo champion. Said Sugar Ray: "I've waited so long it's not new any more...
Every fourth Sunday for the past four years, a group of physicians and psychiatrists has sat down to breakfast in the Detroit Athletic Club. Their aim and table topic: to revive the unfashionable belief that babies should be breast-fed and coddled by their mothers. By last week their revolutionary crusade had become a national movement to urge that Mother Nature knows best...
...Cornelians (and no one answers), that babies cry only a third as much at home as in the hospital, and that, in their experience, most patients who show up for treatment by psychiatrists turn out to have been bottle-fed babies...