Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legacy established by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Lucius W. Nieman, who founded the Milwaukee Journal, supports the awards...
Most doctors know that visitors often do more to stir up hospital patients than to soothe them. But the doctors' own ward rounds can have the same effect, sometimes with fatal results, reported Finnish Doctor Klaus A. J. Jarvinen in the British Medical Journal...
Every program that has been designed to provide health insurance for patients who cannot afford to pay for it, or who are now excluded as "poor risks" has won the Association's opposition as "socialistic" or "unworkable." In 1932 Dr. Morris Fishbein, then editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, stated that voluntary health insurance was "socialism and communism, inciting to revolution." Characteristically, today the AMA supports the voluntary health insurance pools it called "medical soviets" twenty years ago, and resists significant improvements on them. It has entered an active campaign to prevent Federal assistance in medical school...
...Director Sees, charged the Government, personally rode herd on the operation. Sees's motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...
...Government's charge that the Star Co. pushed the rival Journal-Post out of business in 1942, the Star had a strong argument. It was the Journal, said the Star's lawyers, that had been "operated solely to destroy the Star." The Journal had boasted in front-page editorials, said the defense, that it would put the Star out of business. The campaign, charged the Star, started after Multimillionaire Henry L. Doherty bought the Journal in 1931. Doherty, founder and big stockholder of the Cities Service Co., was outraged at the Star's fight against raising Kansas...