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Health insurance seems to promise adequate medical attention for everybody and adequate livelihood for the physician. Exclaimed Dr. Fishbein, spurting to the end of his long discourse: "People know that death is inevitable. In teaching preventive medicine, we have emphasized that sickness may be prevented. Today we know that some sickness for every family is just as inevitable as death, and unless obstetrics continue to be inevitable there will be no population for the future. Let us, therefore, teach the worker that 2,000,000 people are sick every day in 120,000,000 population, and that this number...
...Mouthpiece (Warner), adapted from an unproduced play by Frank J. Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the execution. His methods of atoning for his error are brilliant and unscrupulous. He takes up with a collection of rogues, sees to it that they are not penalized for their crimes. Finally a little Southern secretary (Sidney Fox) makes him ashamed of shabby practice...
...sweep destitution from the face of the city. Startling in its simplicity, the plan was to organize Manhattan's 2,800 city blocks and the 28,421 blocks in the other four boroughs, so that the workers or dwellers in each square would be directly responsible for the livelihood of at least one distressed family, resident in the same block. There are now 20,000 such desperately needy families in New York City. Director of the plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd...
...arguments to uphold his view cannot be denied. If Japan gains the dominant position in China which she appears to be seeking, there is no doubt that this territory will be a permanent source of ill-feeling. Due to Japan's dependence on foreign trade for her livelihood there is small probability that a World economic boycott would fail. If it did, the use of armed force would be effective without any question...
...December Indian trappers complained at the Mounted Police Headquarters in Aklavik that somebody was interfering with their trap lines. For both white and red men, trapping is the only livelihood in winter. Robbing trap lines is a crime, though understandable, but these traps were not robbed. Somebody was smashing snares and deadfalls, scattering the bait so hungry animals could eat it in safety. Tracks of the trap-smasher were followed to Johnson's cabin. Indians raised the alarm, said...