Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming. He is the first to stand up for the rights of the American consumer...
...Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, who is named after Erskine's founder, Ebenezer Erskine. The honor is even rarer than a Nobel Prize in literature. Only other honorary Euphemian: Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was elected to the society in 1868, failed because of ill health to come by and get his diploma. But nobody around Due West can now remember why Lee was so saluted...
After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young chickens and make them into capettes or caponettes might conceivably induce cancer in the consumer...
...Government, continued Douglass, cannot improve the health and economies of other countries "and at the same time disown all responsibility for the population problem which success on these fronts greatly accentuates." The Roman Catholic Church is "staging a desperate delaying action" in "a battle which it knows is already lost. It knows that millions of faithful Catholics disregard its prohibitions in the practice of contraception, and do this with a clear conscience...
...quadruple wages to load coal, and then got steaming. Twenty-eight days and one hurricane later, he landed in San Diego, minus 107 cattle and one crew member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen were confined to ship, and they refused to unload the cattle from the boat, which by that time was two feet deep in month-old manure. Delfino, one of his partners, Clarence Peavy, and their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat...