Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syphilis is another concern of industrial medicine. Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s Harold Albert Vonachen reported that the syphilitics of their Peoria, Ill. plant are kept at work as long as they follow treatment by their family doctors. He discovered that 400 of the 10,000 employes had syphilis. Only two refused treatment. They lost their jobs...
...mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
...follow the committee's recommendation, he says, "would be both unwise and impractical." Just that. And why? Because it would "reverse the President's basic policy." But it is exactly that "basic policy" and its applications that were the object of the committee's investigation and report...
...director of the Boys' Clubs of America, to be the first Moderator in the 113 years of its history. An unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot...
...months ago, major Southern California publishers decided to starve radio stations of all publicity except bare program listings. Last week the movement spread: in San Francisco and Oakland six papers* decided to follow suit temporarily -permanently if readers did not object. In Chicago, the Tribune, following earlier action by the News and American, discontinued its daily radio news column. Meantime, advertising agencies were working on a plan for listing sponsors or products in newspaper radio logs at specified advertising rates...