Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This grant, approved by the United States Public Health Service was part of a $689,685 award to medical and dental students throughout the country for cancer study. The agency explained the grant by saying that the knowledge of 8,994 students in 32 medical schools regarding cancer has shown a wide disparity...
...Harvard School of Public Health opens it 1949-50 Public Health Forum series this afternoon with a talk on "The British National Health Service" by Dr. Arthur Leslie Banks, former Principal Medical Officer of Great Britain's Ministry of Public Health...
...human welfare. In Herbert Lehman's dictionary, welfare meant "condition of health, happiness, prosperity." What was wrong with that? "This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us." Did Dulles think of himself as a Paul Revere spreading the alarm? Scoffed Lehman: Dulles is "galloping backward...
...could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join in defeating Japan...
Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...