Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author William E. Woodward (Bunk, George Washington-the Image and the Man, Meet General Grant, Evelyn Prentice, etc. etc.), congratulations on his health, appetite, luck...
Social Security. In five days the Senate polished up, passed and sent to conference one of the great omnibus measures of the session-the Social Security Bill. Besides appropriating a few (50) millions for poor mothers, crippled children, the blind and public health work, it combined four major schemes, meaning much to many millions of citizens...
Since the U. S. could not stop these occurrences, the League of Nations tried. Liberia is a charter member of the League, for it had joined the Allies one day during the War when a British warship anchored off Monrovia. The League found that Liberia, besides having no health service, had no budget, no accounts, no money, that its trouble was, as Lord Cecil put it, "the incompetence of the Government and corruption-but rather more incompetence than corruption." The League offered to send Liberia a Government adviser to set things right. President Barclay proudly declined. The League threatened...
...James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, ingoing A. M. A. president and crack dietary expert, drew respectful attention when he declared: "The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful. The cheaper cereals can be used as the mainstay of the diet, provided properly selected supplementary foods, such as liver and lettuce, are added in suitable amounts. Because of its high supplementary value in a diet of cereals as well as of other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today...
...fact that few other cases of infantile paralysis were detected throughout the nation last week suggested that the incidence of that disease will be low this summer. However, health officers and bacteriologists are keeping close, special watch for outbreaks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those communities are significant because in Philadelphia Dr. John Albert Kolmer and in Manhattan Dr. Maurice Brodie have perfected serums against the virus which causes infantile paralysis (TIME, Nov. 26 et ante). They accomplished their work too late last year to try out their serums against any significant epidemic, are ready for eventualities this summer...