Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Funeral. The Defense Committee denied a report that it was planning to take the embalmed bodies on an agitating tour of U. S. industrial centers. A state law required that the bodies be burned or buried before sunset the Friday following Execution Tuesday. Boston health officials extended the time to Sunday. When the brains and hearts of the corpses had been removed for examination by Harvard medicos, Massachusetts returned what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building...
...Negro health conditions . . . are worse than ever before...
...Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
...suggests, a werewolf. His dog is a jet wolf-dog whose name means Death. His wife, Miriam, has turned into a spiritual succubus, slowly extracting from her lovers their health and sanity and a psychic poison which she hopes to distill to a potency that will humble Richard Pride. Their daughter, Janet, flowers like a enamel blossom. Wilfred Hough is the bloodless wraith of what was a bright young secretary a few years ago, before Miriam used him. A young voodoo Negress moves through the house, darkness serving darkness in silence, and with a small drum. Finally, there...
Sessions of the different sections in Detroit were similar to those of the American Medical Society in Washington last May. Noteworthy was the attitude of the Negro doctors, dentists and druggists that they were responsible for the health of their race...