Word: infantability
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...Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched map of U. S. infant mortality in her office, and stayed there until last June. How much she had accomplished in that time her 80 excited employes were ready last week to show her as soon as dinner was done...
...years, as chief of the Children's Bureau, Miss Abbott's name has appeared on the inside page of a slim, yellow booklet let called Infant Care and sold by the Government for 10?. The Bible of young mothers, Infant Care, since it was first issued in 1914, has sold more than 8,000,000 copies, a record equaled only by In His Steps...
...before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...specially designed clinical crib with accessories. The crib was in focus whatever the position of the cameras. The dome's interior was flooded with a soft, diffused light. The dome was encased in a one-way vision screen so that operators outside could see inside, but the performing infant could not see outside...
Twenty years later his son, also German-born but brought to the U. S. as an infant, was a trusted adviser to another crusading Democratic President. In the first dizzy months of the New Deal, Jimmy Warburg was the only banking adviser the President had. The quick-witted, versatile young millionaire was no traditionalist himself. He admitted that silver might be useful. He recognized a maldistribution of wealth. Fact was, on all social questions he hewed close to the Roosevelt line. But, with nearly a century and a half of banking tradition behind him, Jimmy Warburg could not continue under...