Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexandra, the Queen Mother, celebrated her 79th birthday at Sandringham Palace, where she was visited by the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family. She received many letters and telegrams of congratulation from all parts of the country. Her Majesty was reported to be in excellent health...
...indeed there is about her a health and sense and sanity that exhilarates you like a very spirit of the green earth. She is the daughter of a Hungarian father and an Italian mother and you find in her that plain earthy sense that is characteristic of the Italians. She will continue that she owes her voice to her many children. " With every child my voice grew better. And in my early years I was left alone to support eight children. I had to work hard and study hard and become a success in opera to keep them fed, clothed...
...Several other Connecticut practitioners under suspicion were subpoenaed by the Grand Jury, but were usually " away on hunting trips." ¶ Graduates of the St. Louis, Kansas City and other discredited institutions were found or charged to be practicing in Rhode Island, New York and elsewhere. State and city health officers everywhere took steps to check up the credentials of doctors within their jurisdictions...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...
...Society of Friends of Medical Progress was organized last week by a number of prominent laymen to support scientific medicine and experimentation, and to resist propaganda or legislation dangerous to public health. Dr. Charles W. Eliot is Honorary President; Thomas Barbour, naturalist, is acting President; Ernest Harold Baynes, defender of vivisection and of humanity to animals, is Field Secretary. The Society is commended by the American Medical Association...