Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and William Dever, Dr. Bundesen had a ringside seat at a memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News...
...blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, frequently visits the U. S. to lecture educators on their trade. A Conservative with liberal tendencies, he is popular with Laborites...
...form of papers and in discussions includes: power resources of the different countries, such as hydro-electric, coal and oil; waterpower production; fuel preparation; internal combustion engines; power transmission and distribution; electro-chemistry; transportation, and electrification of railways; standardization and research; domestic, farm and agricultural uses; illumination; education and health; and economics of power production...
...Dunn had tried to get work or relief for the poor Parkers. The District authorities, said the Congressman, had told Parker to go back to Tennessee. When it was discovered that "this little woman was about to become a mother again," Father Parker was turned away by the Public Health Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that particular...
...when he was Governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt suddenly found himself in need of a State Commissioner of Health. After surveying the field he called to Albany an aggressive, tweed) Marylander named Thomas Parran Jr. Dr. Parran at the time was an assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington as President. There this year he again found himself in need of a health commissioner, this time for the entire nation, when Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, 66, resigned. Last week President Roosevelt called Dr. Parran back to Washington...