Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions on a $5,000,000 policy. He makes friends with the insured, teaches him handball and health rules, brings him back from Bermuda bursting with bounce and sparkle. The schemers call in a hussy whose amorous ministrations they hope will hasten their employer's collapse. Thence the comedy builds up to an unerring anticlimax. The employer marries the hussy...
...Milwaukee, before the American Public Health Association, Professor John Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia declared: "Up to the present time between 10,000 and 12,000 children have been immunized with my vaccine [virus weakened with a castor oil derivative]. No case receiving the full three doses has developed poliomyelitis. However, eight patients who had only one or two doses did contract the disease, indicating what I have long believed, that one or two vaccinations are insufficient...
...eminent specialists in epidemic diseases uprose to throw strong doubt upon both the Kolmer and the Brodie concoctions. Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service were especially perturbed by Dr. Kolmers preparation. They suspected that the weakened virus was still strong enough to cause infantile paralysis, and that Dr. Kolmer's explanation was not valid. Decided Dr. Rivers: "Time and circumstances make it imperative that Dr. Kolmer show his vaccine is absolutely safe...
Latest in the flood of statistics dealing with the health, wealth, and bedtime hours of the Freshman Class, figures released yesterday show that of the members of 1939, 277 are sons of Harvard...
Ostensible reason for Mr. Hopson's retirement was poor health. Testifying in Washington, an Associated lobbyist once declared: "I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." However, the fact that this year Mr. Hopson has spent only a month in his Manhattan office is probably traceable to a devout desire to dodge process servers. Among Associated suits now pending are a mail-fraud case and a stockholders' action to recover some $1,000,000 allegedly milked from the system by a Hopson personal holding company...