Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifted suddenly to the highest office in the land by his shrewd political friends. "Chief" Markham, as the boys call him, loves his friends, trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman...
...Coolidge (TIME, April 12), now on his way to Washington with a bulbous report. It is known that Governor General Wood will leave Manila late in January to go to discuss the Philippines with President Coolidge, but there is scant reason to believe that he intends to resign. His health, which has been poor since an operation for hernia in September, may be a determining factor...
...current U. S. Public Health bulletin records: "For the week ended October 23, 1926, 37 states reported 220 cases of smallpox. Last year for the corresponding week they reported 128 cases...
...methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...