Word: mutism
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company exclusively for deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance bureau. In general, nonetheless, discontent ruled the convention. Scarcely a finger was crooked concerning the causes of deaf-mutism (chiefly whooping cough, scarlet fever, various types of meningitis, severe falls). But knuckles bent, palms flipped, wrists twisted over many grievances...