Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What he said at Minneapolis appeared in the medical association's Journal last week and the Dennison chiefs could read between his lines how hard he had worked for their health; and how considerate of their egos he had been...
Most executives of the Dennison Manufacturing Co.* at Framingham, Mass., were wearing suspenders last week. They do so because after long years of cajoling they accept the health instructions of Dr. Halstead G. Murray, company physician...
Nine years ago President Henry Sturgis Dennison decided that the time had come to set up some sort of health supervision for his 130 major and minor executives. He is a paternalistic employer. He put in the Taylor System of scientific management in his Framingham factories; he started a profit-sharing system, through which the employes now own a good third of the company's stock...
...company, had acted far more drastically than Dr. Murray; at Minneapolis he had spoken far more emphatically. Said he: "More than 99% of our executives are troubled with constipation. ... I have also found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more...
...Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able to eat big bowls of soup and a caribou steak...