Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago is the capering ground of the most showmanly administrator of public health on earth-Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Berlin-born Dane, who as president of Chicago's Board of Health and by means of spectacular propaganda, keeps vast Chicago an exceptionally healthy city in which to be born & live...
Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...
...fear, but a veneer that masks the grave dangers that will be obvious to anyone who explores beneath the surface. . . . Hovering clouds of war, mounting debt, financial fears and continued deficits in these days of comparative prosperity reveal themselves as sinister symptoms in a diagnosis of our national health. . . . But the American people are not dumb. Their pride in the industrial development of our nation is deep seated, and when they are sure that the unsocial in our midst are eliminated, they will turn to Management's help ... to get the ship back on its course. They know industry...
Still I drink your health before...
...whole gamut of indulgence," three or four faithless marriages. Yet Caesar, already married, defied hostile public opinion to keep Cleopatra openly in Rome with their illegitimate son during his last three years, introduced a law permitting him to marry several wives; and at 60, in spite of bad health, was prepared to go to war to silence anti-Cleopatra agitation...