Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halsted L. Ritter, 67, moved to Florida in 1925 for his wife's health, four years later was appointed to the Federal bench by President Coolidge. Chief of the "high crimes and misdemeanors'' with which the House charged him last week was that, as party to a champertous proceeding, he had "corruptly and unlawfully" received $4,500 from his onetime law partner, Albert L. Rankin. Champerty, it was explained for the benefit of nonlawyer Senators, is a proceeding whereby a person having no legitimate interest in a law suit abets it with money or services...
...Constant progress is being made in most of the states in strengthening the machinery of medical organization and in extending the influence of State and county medical societies. . . . Much closer contact is being maintained with organized groups among the lay public that have concerned themselves with medical and public health affairs. . . . Representatives of the Association have appeared before a greater number of lay audiences than ever before. The editor of the Journal [Dr. Morris Fishbein], the director of the Bureau of Health & Public Instruction [Dr. William Waldo Bauer] and the director of the Bureau of Medical Economics [Dr. Rosco Genung...
Longtime predecessor of Dr. Van Etten as Speaker of the A. M. A. House of Delegates was Dr. Frederick Cook Warnshuis. Disaffection among A. M. A. delegates and officers plus his own ill health cost Dr. Warnshuis his job. When he took the secretaryship of the California Medical Association, A. M. A. headquarters in Chicago expected him to control that State's alarming tendency toward socialized medicine. But Dr. Warnshuis was unable to prevail against Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results...
...publicity bureau, euphemistically called the "Bureau of Health & Public Instruction" is working full blast -by newspaper handouts, pamphlets, radio lectures, college debates, traveling speakers-to remind the public how much good old-fashioned doctoring did for them...
SOUTH RIDING-Winifred Holtby-Macmillan ($2.50). Framework of this comprehensive chronicle of a modern Yorkshire town is the decisions of a county council on education, highways & bridges, public health etc. The story follows these administrative acts out into the lives of the local citizens. A workmanlike book, the posthumous novel of an author who died last September...