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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
...dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for everything from athlete's foot treatment to blood transfusions.* During the last four years Cook County Hospital has been a battleground for two warring medical factions. Last week a compromise ended the fight...
Since the dropping of Cook County from the approved hospital list produced no effect on stubborn Dr. Meyer, A.M.A. last spring brought public opinion to bear. An A.M.A.-inspired citizens' committee, investigating management of the hospital, recommended that Dr. Meyer be ousted, hinted that the hospital might be reinstated on the A.M.A.'s list if a new director acceptable to the A.M.A., were chosen. The County Commissioners backed Dr. Meyer, stood...
...last week they finally changed their minds, paid both sides off. Terms: 1) Dr. Meyer was marched upstairs to the post of "medical superintendent of all county institutions"; 2) Cook County was promised reinstatement on the A.M.A.'s list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison, son of a former Cook County Hospital surgical chief, warm friend of Dr. Meyer and of A.M.A. propriety as well, was appointed new Cook County director; 4) five medical aides-de-camp were assigned to Dr. Davison. General McCloskey will continue to run only the mechanical departments of the hospital...
...little jaded last week were U. S. businessmen. The thrill of seeing industrial production run ahead of corresponding months in 1929 wore off. There were some who found many an indication to justify a little pessimism, if they felt like it. Items...