Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Health: Neville Chamberlain...
...found a name for that grim plague which, since the untoward demise of a certain Mexican woman three weeks ago, has caused a series of deaths so sinister and baffling in the poor quarter of Los Angeles : "black pneumonia." Having thus damned their enemy with a definition, California physicians, health authorities, sharpened the temper of their vigilance. The street-ends of the infected district were barricaded with ropes, guards were posted, armed with short shotguns, to enforce the quarantine. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appropriated $25,000 to combat the epidemic, appointed a special committee of experts...
...election of Dr. Walter B. James as a life trustee of Columbia University to succeed Judge Robert S. Lovett, Chairman of the Board of the Union Pacific R. R. (resigned because of ill health), turned attention to the list of life trustees of the largest university in the world: William B. Persons (civil engineer), Chairman; Nicholas M. Butler (Columbia President) ; Marcellus H. Dodge (firearms) ; the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning (New York Bishop) ; Willard V. King (banks) ; Stephen Baker (banks) ; Frederic R. Coudert (lawyer) ; Newcomb Carlton (telegraphs) ; John G. Milburn (lawyer) ; Joseph P. Grace (banks, ships, merchandise) ; Alfred E. Marling...
...President Taft; Gerald Swope, of New York, president of the General Electric Company; and Bishop William Lawrence '71, of Boston. The talks over the two years have discussed as careers, public life and the law, business, the ministry, engineering, teaching, government, and the opportunities in medicine, surgery and public health...
...common knowledge among the student body that temptations which are a detriment to the health, character, and efficient pursuit of studies are almost everywhere present among the students living in the area...