Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days after the bombing of Formosa, Associated Press flashed from Hankow, where Chinese Government censors handle every dispatch, the news that Secretary General of Aviation, Mme Chiang, "is authoritatively understood to be relinquishing the position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...
...look like a sick man?" asked Mr. Eden, in answer to rumors that his resignation had been caused by ill health. "I resigned because no other course was open to me! His Majesty's Government believe that their new policy, while risky, must ultimately succeed and must contribute to the peace of Europe. Unhappily I cannot believe this-indeed I believe exactly the opposite-so how could I recommend such a course to the House of Commons? If I had done so. I should have been a hypocrite...
...Largest Catholic welfare agency in the U. S. is the Catholic Charities of New York, which coordinates and supplements the work of 214 Catholic bodies maintaining hospitals, homes, nurseries, settlements, miscellaneous health, vocational and recreational services. The pride of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, New York's "Cardinal of Charities," since its founding 18 years ago, the Catholic Charities has donated $21,000,000 to its constituent bodies, whose expenditures now total $10,000,000 a year. Its 1938 drive, announced last week to begin late this month, will...
...mental health of teachers is below normal. The average teacher is a worrier. Two-fifths of them worry so much that it interferes with their sleep and efficiency. Chief of their worries: lack of money. A large proportion worry about the unsatisfactory progress of their pupils. Relatively few worry about marital affairs...
...John Harvey Kellogg is a healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors...