Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats throughout the land watched his progress, hoped that it spelled an end to bunions and broken arches...
Five years ago, perturbed because engineers could not get jobs when they got their degrees, Mr. Murphy began a study of U. S. universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...
...back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week he was asked if he regarded his woodwork as a hobby. "If it sells, it's not a hobby," said William Steig...
...well able to handle a case as the specialist is; and . . . if the profession does not take care, the family doctor will vanish. . . . The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door. At the same time, we the general practitioners are implored to stay, but we cannot long survive the economic competition with superspecialism. It is a vicious circle...
Last week Dr. Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. spokesman and Journal editor] is a dictator, a Hitler. I believe in organized medicine. Socialization is fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done...