Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign is prompted in part by a 1944 upturn in the T.B. death rate, the first in decades. Last month Congress authorized a new Tuberculosis Control Division with $10,000,000 for its first year. Its chief is a Minnesotan, Dr. Herman Ertresvaag Hilleboe, 38, a stocky, energetic T.B. fighter for eleven years. He is the Navy's chief T.B. consultant...
...scout); Eddie Collins, second base (Boston Red Sox general manager); Frank ("Home Run") Baker, third base (Maryland farmer); Honus Wagner, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates coach); Bill Dickey, catcher (U.S. Navy); Lefty Grove, pitcher (Maryland coupon clipper); Walter Johnson, pitcher (Maryland farmer); Tris Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher, who failed to get leave, and Ty Cobb, left field, who wired from his California retirement that he had a bad case of poison...
...Dancer. In the Hawaiian Islands, Private Herman Zachary, an Indian, got tired of seeing the hula, wrote home to Desmet, Idaho, for his feathers, breech clout, tomahawk and moccasins...
...International Labor Office assigned British Political Scientist Herman Finer to make a thorough assay of these dreams...
...Herman Louis Kretschmer, incoming president of the Association, repeated organized medicine's objections to the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (semisocialized medicine), which for twelve months has been in Congressional committee. Said he: "I believe it is incumbent on every physician in this country to devote at least two hours a day to educating the people in his community as to the significance of such legislation"-i.e., against...