Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m sure we should all be as happy as kings...
Last week, professional polio fighters decided that the scare campaign had gone too far. Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, declared that false rumors about polio can do more harm than the disease itself. Dr. Weaver stressed the positive gains made in polio research (on which the Foundation has spent almost $11 million, will spend $2,000,000 this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted...
...George F. Lull, the A.M.A.'s general manager, arrived to offer a posy: for the first time in its 102 years, the A.M.A. was going to seat a Negro, Harlem's Dr. Peter M. Murray, in its House of Delegates. But Dr. Lull soon revealed the political wiring in his bouquet...
Said Chicago's Dr. Alonzo M. Mercer: "The Negro doctor doesn't get a break in hospitals, to get his patient in there or to practice there . . . Let's take another year and think about it." That was what the convention promptly decided to do. It was smart politics, and gave Negro doctors a year to see what concessions they could get at hospitals and medical schools controlled by A.M.A. members...
...Floating Rose. One studio that is less desperate than most is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; that is partly because M-G-M has already turned up a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire. She is Elizabeth Taylor...