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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WALTER M. BOOTHBY...
American Social Hygiene Association Inc. (Wed. 1:45 p. m. NBC-Blue) gives the floor to Eleanor Roosevelt, a medal to U. S. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran...
...liberal American Medical Association (110,000 of the 170,000 U. S. doctors) has approved these recommendations, but objects to the further suggestion that all medical service in the U. S. be organized on a taxation or insurance basis. To A. M. A. leadership, this proposal smacks of socialized medicine. As the bill headed toward the floors of Congress, A. M. A. Leaders Irvin Abell and Olin West rushed to Washington to repeat their objections to President Roosevelt...
...convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed up by the exercise, ached for a real workout, and when the fatal suggestion was made, "Let's take San Francisco-," it was the end of Orestes' career...
...Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...