Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night an ambulance went clanging through the streets of Manhattan, carrying Heywood Broun's great bulk to the hospital. His grippe had turned into pneumonia, and he was gravely ill. Never in good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
...making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer, ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings. Pleading ill health, Junta Member Mange resigned as president, board chairman...
Twenty years ago the U. S. Public Health Service quietly began to print dowdy little pamphlets on birds, flowers & sex which it handed out to parents and schoolteachers for the price of a stamp. Later it dared dry little whispers on the cause and treatment of venereal disease. Three and a half years ago, when dynamic Thomas Parran was appointed Surgeon-General, he promptly starched up the publicity of the Public Health Service, egged on press and radio to utter the unutterable words "syphilis" and "gonorrhea...
...little, in-page book was written by Dr. Arthur Marston Stimson, medical director of the Public Health Service. Designer was young Robert Brouse Thorpe Schmuck, who inserted graphic photographs of malaria victims, battered privies (see cut), rotting carcasses of animals...
...Flushing, N. Y., Deputy Health Commissioner John Grimley ordered evicted Eskimo Robert Mayokok, his wife, four children, from a World's Fair igloo. Reason: the igloo is an exhibit, not a domicile...