Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alex Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, was reported ill and confined to his bed. For some time he has been in poor health, having, two years ago, spent several months in Germany undergoing treatment for stomach trouble...
...office for a successor. But Mr. Wilson to the day of his death held office as the leader of an outstanding movement?by some admired, by others abhorred?the League-of-Nations idea. By his part in creating the League, by his advocacy of it, which cost him his health, there was no disputing his title. With his death the mantle descends. There is little doubt that it falls upon the shoulders of John Hessin Clarke, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. No one except Mr. Wilson has a record of greater service to the League-of-Nations idea...
...Mahatma" (Wonder Worker) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of the Non-Cooperatists, was released unconditionally from jail. For some time he has been in a hospital and his state of health was such that the attending physicians recommended six months at the seaside as indispensable for his convalescence...
Thirty-five per cent of the people in the U. S. are suffering perpetually from "bad colds." After a three years' study of the situation by its research division, the Public Health Service has started a serious investigation into the reason for this national nuisance and danger. The work is headed by Dr. J. G. Townsend. He keeps a bi-weekly record of the health of 12,000 individuals and 1,000 families in every State...
...Liberal in the Labor den, gave the lead to the Socialists by cutting down his large salary ($42,500). Patrick Hastings, Attorney General, was reported to be sticking to his $29,750 salary and to his fees which easily reach $125,000 a year. John Burns, Minister of Health, boldly asserted that he intended to stick to every penny of his $8,500 a year...