Word: givens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors is based on experience- for years his family doctor has been able Connie Myers Guion, 47, specialist in internal medicine, Cornell Medical graduate, chief of the department of medicine...
Still uncompleted is the $4,000,000 Rockefeller-given Riverside Church of Manhattan. Last week Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who will be its pastor, gathered his flock into Temple Beth-El and there preached. Beth-El members now attend the new Emanu-El, and are therefore glad to accommodate the Christians by loaning them the vacated synagog...
...Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar, town on the Chinese Eastern Railroad. There the captors telegraphed Chang Hsueh-liang, Governor of Manchuria, of the arrests. He, more news-wise than the people, rewired that the Frenchmen be handled politely, be given aid for continuance of their flight...
When George Herman Ruth was seriously ill in a hospital, his signed stories continued to appear daily. Mr. Broun advances an explanation that had been given him by famed Sports-scribe W. O. McGeehan: "That the Babe escaped from his cot each night by means of a rope made of knotted sheets and staggered to the telegraph office with his copy...
...wife, Lydia, at whom he had flung shoes. The judge asked her to sentence her husband. "He's a dirty brute," said Lydia. "Give him thirty days in the workhouse." After Anthony had been sentenced, came Pat Quigley and wife, Nellie, who had been punched and kicked. Also given jurisprudence, she said: "Give him the same dose as the other fellow...