Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
Last week 100 members of the House of Delegates, supreme A. M. A. body, met in extraordinary session with 400 officials of local medical organizations in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House. Purpose: consideration of the proposed Federal health program. Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, Tenn., speaker of the House, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, Ky., president of the Association, and Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis., president-elect, exhorted the delegates. All three opposed "political control," reiterated the A. M. A.'s desire to "benefit the people." Said President Abell, referring...
...buildings should be constructed only where necessary; 5) Compulsory health insurance is undesirable, would lead to "political control and manipulation," but hospital service insurance and cash indemnity insurance policies for patients suffering from prolonged illnesses are highly desirable, as is compensation of workers for loss of wages during illness. Local medical societies should cooperate with the Federal Government, organize local community service agencies for taking care of the sick with Federal funds...
Mothers and Sons (Mosfilm). Veteran Director V. Pudovkin turns his attention to Soviet aviation. Players include E. Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya (as the Mother), J. Stalin (as local color...
...York City's metropolitan area are 20 union baseball teams. Twenty-one men's and 20 women's basketball teams compete for the Dubinsky Cup (offered by President David Dubinsky), the Hochman Trophy. In Fall River, Mass., a union local has a rifle team, teaches men and women workers to shoot straight. In Philadelphia is a union riding club. "Once," says the union, "it might have been said that horseback riding was too good for the common people, but the I. L. G. W. U. feels that nothing is too good for workers...