Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations, or the Board of Directors of the League, now in session at Paris, has the following agenda: fixation of arrangements for two international opium conferences, which may be held at Geneva next Summer; discussion of the white slave traffic evil; investigation of questions affecting international health, slavery, Russian refugees, anti-obscene literature campaign, intellectual cooperation movement; consideration of reduction of armaments, compact of mutual guarantees (TiME, Aug. 20), German colonists in Poland, Memel dispute, Saar Valley report, appointment of a new High Commission for Danzig, Austrian report, plans for financial rehabilitation of Hungary, reports of the various...
...GRAESLER-Arthur Schnitzler- Seltzer ($2.50). Dr. Graesler, middle-aged physician at a small German health-resort, reserved, dry, serious, melancholy, had never had the success in life that his natural abilities promised. Left alone by the sudden suicide of his sister, he was vaguely drawn into a search for belated romance and spiritual content. Three women crossed his path. He quite intended to marry the first, but they misunderstood each other fatally, and nothing came of it. The second became his mistress-and died of scarlet fever contracted from little Fanny, Frau Sommer's child, a patient of Graesler...
...meeting of the Moscow Soviet, prostitution was recognized as a legitimate profession. Public women are hereafter to claim politeness from the police. M. Semashko, Soviet Health Commissioner, said that increased prostitution was the result of Russia's present economic policy and that it would be unfair to persecute women for earning a living. Hence, prostitutes are classed as working women. The resolution was passed unanimously...
Lilli Lehmann is living in Grunewald, near Berlin. She has just celebrated her 75th birthday. In good health, but no longer able to sing, she devotes herself to teaching girls to become stars...
...Arnold Gesell, a director of the American Child Health Association, has published The Pre-School Child...