Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox, for Mr. Doherty excused himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged...
Three weeks ago President Enriquez tackled the problem of public health by decreeing that any marriage celebrated without a medical certificate testifying that both parties were free from tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, or other similar illness can be instantly annulled by the courts...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...
...free public lecture, on "Progress in Preventive Medicine," given at the Medical School yesterday afternoon. Dr. Frederick F. Russell, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, gave a detailed analysis of the achievement to date in the field of vaccination and state controlled health measures, and pointed to the particular fields in which there was room for additional work...
Dr.Russell, who was formerly Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, pointed out, however, that this region was singularly fortunate, for not only were State laws rigorously enforced, but climatic conditions were especially favorable to the preparation and preservation of preventive medicines...