Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couched in too general terms, the Radical-Militarists demanding that "each ministry should announce concrete plans." First to do so was the Home Ministry, now headed by a Japanese Civil Service career official of great gumption, Mr. Keinosuke Ushio. "I am taking immediate steps to inaugurate nationwide health insurance," he barked. "Thus the Home Ministry will 'stabilize the people's living...
...lines were cast in pleasant places. He was born the eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent...
...understood however that definite steps will be taken by health authorities to continue the investigation begun yesterday as a result of the many complaints of bad milk served in Cambridge restaurants...
Died. Albert Harrison Brundage, 74, noted toxicologist; of lobar pneumonia; in Central Islip, L.I. Wealthy from his writings, he gave so liberally to charity and scientific research that two months ago, bankrupt and broken in health, he was evicted from his Woodhaven, L.I. home...
...Manhattan last January the American Social Hygiene Association heard New York City's Health Commissioner Dr. John Levi Rice earnestly single out the prevention and treatment of syphilis as the gravest single problem facing his department (TIME...