Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Infantile paralysis is slowly being eradicated from Massachusetts, according to figures compiled by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission. In the 1928 epidemic the Commission, assisted by the State Department of Health, treated some 25 percent of the 500 cases in the pre-paralytic stage, compared with but 10 percent of 1200 cases so treated...
...experience in public office made me know that whether I was to be overburdened with work and broken down in health depended more on myself than any act of Congress...
...Cumberland Falls had another ramification that interested the Senate. Although locally called "the Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky...
...Congress met. But he was not so able, so last week he wrote two letters-one to Vice President Dawes, one to Governor Robinson of Delaware-resigning. Thus ended a Senate career which began seven years ago by appointment and was continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator du Pont away from Washington most of last session. This session, though resigned, he will be more present than usual in his onetime-colleague's minds, since the Senate is taking an interest in his fight with Samuel Insull over a Kentucky waterfall...
...that no person shall sell, exhibit, give information about or use any contraceptive. A Federal law and the various laws of other states are almost as stringent. In New York State, however, there are two birth control clinics which may give advice when essential to a wife's health or to save life...