Word: hyperthyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
Cardiospasm. People who have abnormal difficulty in swallowing (because of a spasm of the esophagus) are about like those who become hyperthyroid, but a little less...
Anglo-American relations looked good last week-no nasty diplomatic incidents, no spectacular twisting of the lion's tail or plucking of the eagle's feathers by hyperthyroid editors or politicians. On the positive side there was even a solid report (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the British would accede to U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes's suggestion on the partition of Palestine...
...last few years many U.S. doctors have become fed up with Dr. Morris Fishbein, leading mouthpiece for the American Medical Association. Particular gripes: 1) Fishbein's booming attacks on proposed Government medical programs were giving the whole A.M.A. a "reactionary" label; 2) more than hyperthyroid opposition was needed to head off the threat of "socialized" medicine...
...admission, Manhattan's pink knight among newspapers, the hyperthyroid tabloid PM, has everything it takes to be a great newspaper-except readers. Its 165,000 nickel-a-day "shareholders" (over 200,000 pay a dime on Sundays) make up a weekly $60,000 pot, but each week some bills go unpaid. For most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor...