Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stelle's successor turned out to be, as everyone knew it would, 49-year-old Colonel Paul H. Griffith. He had fought...
World War I as a noncom, served as a colonel in desk jobs during World War II, and in between ran a butter-&-egg business in Uniontown, Pa., his home town, and a public relations business in Washington. Says Griffith, who has fought organized labor on the issue of superseniority for veterans: "Veterans are not getting jobs as fast as nonveterans and something has to be done about...
...FRANSISCO, October 4 -- The American Legion concluded its first big convention since Pearl Harbor today with the election of Paul H. Griffith of Union-town, Pennsylvania, as new national commander, and chartered a course for the coming year within the framework established by its out-going leadership...
...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...
...Griffith's explanation: pitressin may stimulate the body to produce an antihormone which neutralizes the hormone responsible for urine suppression and high blood pressure. As a test, he gave pitressin injections to 63 patients for several months. Result: half his patients improved; in some, blood pressure dropped to normal, stayed normal after injections stopped...