Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois' No. 1 Democrat, forceful Governor Henry Horner, has been four months sunning his bald head and nursing his ailing heart in Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances...
...political physician diagnosing Europe's health would have reported that while the patient still had some fever and complications might easily set in, there was still a 50-50 chance that he would regain normal health. One reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce...
...each child. Some owners of the stately homes of England have lately intimated that they were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think of the dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife!" But Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot last week announced that Britain's countryfolk had already offered keep and shelter for more than 1,000,000 city children and their mothers, left no doubt that the Government would use compulsion if necessary to make every country dweller do his share...
...cafe dishwasher, that he had always followed his nose until a few days before. Then he found it impossible to walk forward and, driven by an irresistible urge to walk backward, he began to follow another part of his body. Since hospital physicians found Bellinger in excellent physical health, they called in two psychiatrists...
...honor Pasteur and the work of the Institute. All will recall Pasteur's speech at the opening of the institute. "Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest," he said. "The one, a law of blood and death . . . the other, a law of peace, work and health. . . . Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows." These words seem very fresh to Institute scientists, for they had planned their celebration last November, were forced to postpone it because of war threats...