Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirty rat!" cried Candidate Thompson. "He is grooming this other rat, Robertson. He's the scum of the earth." It will be remembered that "Rat" Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years ago, and that Mr. Thompson made "Rat" Robertson his Commissioner of Health. Anything is possible in Chicago politics. Mr. Thompson is even asking for votes on the grounds that he will not interfere with saloons and not arrest "decent citizens for minor infractions of the dry laws...
Said Director J. L. Blumenthal of the bureau of child hygiene, New York City: "The really fat baby has a mass of material that is of no use to him at all in fighting off ills and diseases of babyhood. . . . The grownups, in the interest of health, exercise. . . . Why, then, overstuff the baby so the mother can boast about...
...week. The tenants pay their rent promptly. One year, when total rentals were $826,483, only $18 remained unpaid. During the generation that the City & Suburban Homes Co. has functioned, unpaid rents have averaged $30 a year. No other landlord has such prompt and complete rental payments. And the health of Mr. Cutting's tenants is several times better than that of the average resident of the five boroughs that make up New York City.* When the city death rate was 12.94 for each 1,000 persons, the death rate in his buildings was a third of that...
...impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that "you can get wholesome health-building foods most anywhere...
...William E. Knox, 64, onetime (1925) president of the American Bankers' Association; by shooting himself while in the restroom of the Bowery Savings Bank. He went to work for this bank 40 years ago, was elected president in 1922. For several recent months he had been in poor health, nervous; became dejected at the recent arrest of three of his clerks for embezzlement. Stated the bank trustees: "There was nothing whatever in the condition of the bank or his relations to the bank that was not in every way satisfactory." Last month they re-elected him president...