Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidate Pedro Aquirre Cedra, 59, leader of the Radical party (which, like the Radical Socialist group in France, is nearer centre than left) made his money as a lawyer and farmer. In the election he was backed by a Popular Front of Radical, Socialist and Communist Parties, the first in South America...
...Group Health Association, Inc. Last year William F. Penniman, deputy governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who was dismayed at the Board's loss of several hundred thousand dollars annually through sickness of employes, encouraged 1,000 Board workers to join the Group Health Association. Inc. Starting with a $40,000 loan from the Board, G. H. A. established a clinic with laboratory and X-ray departments, hired a staff of physicians, offered government employes complete health service and 21-day hospitalization at rates of $2.20 a month for single persons, $3.30 a month for families...
...Coffey's scheme is intended for the entire State, divides members into three groups: 1) voluntary employed members with incomes under $3,000 a year, who pay $2.50 per person per month (children $1) for medical and hospital care; 2) the "medically indigent": voluntary employed groups with incomes under $800 a year (for this group State or Federal relief money would pay 60% of the rates and doctors would receive 50% less money for their services than in the first group); 3) unemployed and relief groups, financed entirely by State, Federal or municipal aid, or by charity, with doctors...
...cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper...
...creed of orthodox psychologists is a belief that people are born with a certain degree of intelligence and are doomed to go through life with the same I. Q. Strange and heretical to these orthodox ones are reports that have come during the past six years from a little group of psychologists at Iowa's State University in Iowa City. Last week, before a conference of distinguished educators in Manhattan, Iowa's Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard laid astounding proofs supporting Iowa's heresy: that an individual's I. Q. can be changed...