Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the two parts of Leftist territory from 25 to 50 miles last week. To bolster the morale of his troops against advancing Rightists, General José Miaja, dictator of Southern Leftist Spain, confirmed the appointment of Jesús Hernández, former Communist Minister of Education and Health, as Political War Commissar of Miaja's five armies...
...Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together out of youngsters and incidents encountered all over the U. S. Says he of Henry Aldrich: "There's a lot of myself in him." Says...
Criticizing the New Deal, he said that relief at its best was "only 40 per cent efficient, which is inadequate to support the health and morale of the people. In New York City there are some 500,000 living in tenements condemned in 1901; in Philadelphia there are 10,000 outside toilets. People lead such lives because they couldn't do otherwise...
...squeamish generation-before-last, "the facts of life" were considered shameful. That the process of which every human is a product is still considered so by countless people is not only a shameful but a dangerous state of affairs to U. S. doctors and health officers. Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth...
...harm to know how?" Editor & Publisher, respected journalists' journal, editorialized: "We can point to no better channel of education than pictures selected by an editor with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine," deplored the "attitude of officials who have tried to prevent the sale of LIFE. . . . This action in itself indicates the necessity for such public health education...