Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cried: "It is a very terrible thing to think that today out of every 250 mothers, one dies in childbirth, and that this state of things has persisted for the last 20 years. . . . Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries of 'Hear! Hear!'] to bring down the percentage of maternal mortality . . . which alone shows no improvement...
...Smart persons do not confuse Commodore P-e-r-r-y with Rear Admiral Robert Edwin P-e-a-r-y (1856-1920), discoverer of the North Pole (1909) and father of the "Snow Baby," Marie Ahnighito ("Peaked Mountain") Peary, once famed as the Farthest-North-born white infant, later the daughter-in-law of Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...
...Club harkened humbly, last week, to a visiting and lecturing maestro: Richard Neville Speaight Esq. of London, semi-official photographer to the Court of St. James's. "On one occasion," confided Maestro Speaight amid a hush, "I was obliged to pace the floor for two hours with an infant son* of Princess Mary in my arms before the child stopped crying and enabled me to make a satisfactory portrait...
John J. Raskob, vice president of the General Motors Corp., had audience with Pope Pius XI and received a special benediction. A Knight of Malta, Mr. Raskob had contributed to the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Rome, favorite mission of the Pope. Said Mr. Raskob: "His Holiness was particularly pleasant...