Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme himself gave no explanation for thus yielding his embassy's wet privilege. By others three possible reasons were advanced: 1) Sir Esme himself does not drink alcoholic beverages, due to delicate health. Milk he drinks in quantities and every hostess who entertains him knows enough to provide it for him. 2) Sir Esme has been thoroughly annoyed at news photographs, widely circulated, of liquor trucks unloading at his embassy, followed by abusive letters from many a Dry crank. 3) The British Embassy is reported sufficiently stocked with liquor to carry over until next February when Sir Esme retires...
...wanted to do some good for the health of some of my friends. The Archbishop was not in good health, and I was informed by his friends that if he did make the voyage I would have to be most careful of him, and I was. I had to go to his doctor and get permission to take the Archbishop away for the cruise. The doctor said he was a sick man, but he let me have him, and when the head of the Episcopal Church in England returned I think that he looked better for the sea voyage...
...escaped. Gingerly, Rumanian gendarmes captured the gesticulating lepers. In a nearby pharmacy terrified government clerks tore off their clothes, gargled. scrubbed themselves with disinfectants. A moment later still other government clerks rushed in, shouting for chloride, plucking at their garments. A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto...
Last week's $1,000,000 was in the same vein. New York University wishes a public health centre, to emulate Columbia University with its new (Harkness-bolstered) medical centre. And to Mr. Baker the faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Quickly (1902) followed the General Education Board. In 1909 came the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to control hookworm in the U. S. In 1913 (the year of the Colorado Fuel strike) the Rockefeller Foundation was formed and the Sanitary Commission recreated as the International Health Board. Three years after Mrs. Rockefeller died he created the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918). At the beginning of 1929 the fields of these were revised and their organizations reduced to two?the Rockefeller Foundation (international) and the General Education Board (exclusively U. S.). Their combined capital endowment last week...