Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting in solemn convention in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week was the "Congress of American Industry," annual session of the National Association of Manufacturers. If the delegates, some 2,000 strong, were not all Business, at least they were a big slice of it, representatives of the employers of one-half of the country's industrial labor. However, meeting at a time when for the first time in five years the New Deal had been set back on its heels-by a new depression-they were in a new position. For the voice of Business, although...
...liberal press was, of course, warmest in its condemnation of Section XII. Said the Nation: "The Herald Tribune has got away with the publication of paid propaganda at a nice profit. The money that swelled its advertising revenue came out of the hide of an oppressed nation...." To which New Republic added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral...
Chicago is the home of some of the nation's foremost baby specialists (notably Northwestern University's Isaac Arthur Abt and University of Illinois' Julius Hays Hess) and the world's No. 1 obstetrician -Dr. Joseph Bolivar De Lee. He tirelessly preaches that, to prevent the spread of infection among mothers and children, all hospitals should not only have separate sections but separate buildings for the delivery and nursing of children and the convalescence of post partum women...
...these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...
...said, he had discussed the advisability of the RFC making further small railroad loans. Asked if the Government would do anything else for the lines, he declared that the major responsibility rested on the ICC, that rail-road economics is one of the most serious problems facing the nation, that he did not believe any member of the ICC yet had a good solution for the problem, that he himself had none. Of one thing Franklin Roosevelt was sure, however: the last thing he wanted was Government control of railroads...