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...Flint-Goodridge. Eight years ago, the only place for sick Negroes in New Orleans was the halls of ancient Charity Hospital, where patients slept two and three in a bed. And there was not a hospital a Negro doctor could practice in. In 1931 the Rosenwald Fund, the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years...
With $500,000 Mr. Stern and a group of white and black doctors built Flint-Goodridge Hospital, a solid, severe, sun-flooded plant, with 100 beds, complete X-ray and clinical facilities for 30,000 patients a year. As superintendent they chose a Negro real-estate agent and insurance salesman, bland, 35-year-old Albert W. Dent. When Mr. Dent moved his family and furniture into a second-floor ward, Flint-Goodridge had neither patients nor staff. Most Negroes thought a hospital a place to come and die in. Of the 35 Negro doctors in New Orleans, only about...
...Tulane, and from Louisiana State University Medical Center. The white doctors took charge of the hospital's various departments, worked in the clinics with the Negro doctors, who had no rank. When the colored doctors were trained, they were moved up into the white doctors' places. Flint-Goodridge, says Mr. Dent, has fewer staff squabbles than many all-white hospitals in New Orleans...
...Where both City of Flint and Bremen were temporarily held...
WASHINGTON--Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, which was seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...