Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics, Gerald Winrod's fame dates from a day in 1937 when, driving his wife to Mexico for her health, he heard of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing plan over his automobile's radio. Immediately he telephoned back to Wichita, released a flood of anti-Court Plan pamphlets, threatened to snow Congress under with a million petitions...
...Sorrows. No statistics exist on the ratio between prayers and fulfillments, but in Father Keane's church alone, 80,000 letters are on file from Catholics whose prayers have been answered. An analysis of 800,000 petitions showed them to be predominantly personal, begging jobs, boy friends, good health, etc. Only 8,000 of the faithful asked nothing for themselves, petitioning good health for the Pope, etc., or, in one case, a cure for Dizzy Dean...
Answering this challenge, President Roosevelt last February published a detailed report of the nation's health prepared under the supervision of Josephine Roche who, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1934-37), formerly headed Government health activities. He also called a National Health Conference, which met last week in Washington to sound out popular opinion on an extensive Government program of medical service. Present were 175 delegates of the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, National Consumers' League, National League of Women Voters, United Mine Workers, etc. Also present were Dr. Hugh Cabot, leader...
...cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene; $145,000,000 for erecting hospitals with 360,000 extra beds, maintaining free beds, promoting medical research...
...West arose and barked: "I don't know whether the medical profession is any more proud of him [Cabot] than he is of the medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind...