Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them lapse. As soon as the waiting period is up on his third set of first papers he may apply for citizenship. Government authorities have dutifully checked charges of false identity, of subversive activities, of a criminal record in Australia-and have given Harry Bridges a clean bill of health. Ship owners have even asked the Department of Labor to deport him on general principles. Occasionally Mr. Bridges loses patience, as he did this spring when he sued the Portland Oregon Journal for $100,000 damages. Without naming Bridges the Oregon Journal editorialized favorably on a reader's suggestion...
With large ads in 14 newspapers the Ladies' Home Journal last week called attention to an article on syphilis in its August issue entitled "We Can End This Sorrow" by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. It was Dr. Parran who made the U. S. press syphilis-conscious, brought the subject into open discussion this year in newspapers, magazines and books (TIME, April 6 et seq.). The Journal in its ads harked proudly back to pre-Parran days...
...subject last week and a half dozen similar books were already in bookstores.* The A. M. A. was ready to lend doctors a talkie from which they could learn how to diagnose and treat syphilis. This technical film, prepared by A. M. A. and U. S. Public Health Service experts, matched a "popular" film, prepared by the U. S. P. H. S. which Surgeon General Parran was eager to have shown throughout the nation...
...enabling one girl to fill 20 masks a minute instead of one mask every 35 min. He got the idea for his dry shaver while recovering from dysentery in Alaska, used profits from his patents on pencil sharpeners to start making it in 1931. Living in Montreal for his health, he had been a Canadian citizen since 1935. Last fortnight he was named by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance for having four personal holding companies in the Bahamas...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...