Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's new Federal Security Administrator, Paul Vories McNutt, was confirmed in office last week by the Senate. He promptly proceeded to evacuate the Public Health Service (one of his charges) from its handsome three-story stone home on Constitution Avenue. "Finest campaign headquarters in America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt...
...give $10, a maximum of $40 in States giving $17.50. This plan's author was Senator Connally of Texas. Colorado's Johnson got it further provided that no Federal money at all shall go to States that fail to give at least $10. For child and maternal health service the Senate upped the House's $3,800,000 to $5,820,000, for crippled children from $2,850,000 to $3,870,000 (Wisconsin's La Follette). The bill went to conference...
Died. Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced backhouse), 60, old-time British sea dog and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty from 1938 until his retirement last month because of ill health; in London. Fortnight before his death he was made Admiral of the Fleet by King George...
...Overwork. A Düsseldorf public health officer named Gottwald, while puffing up a smokescreen of acclaim for general health conditions in the Reich, admitted that the curves of increased illness among workmen and increased working hours are closely parallel. Hardest hit are men in the building trades, who work 14-hour and 16-hour days...
Recently German health statistics made the most amazing disclosure of all: that 75% of the male population at one time or another have had some form of venereal disease. This almost incredible figure, in the light of Das Neue Tage-Buch's, researches, may be a consequence not only of the moral paganism preached in the New Germany but also of lowered resistance on the part of young Germans to venereal infection...