Word: obstructionism
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An endowment for journalistic purposes, the Wisconsin Supreme Court finds, is not per se to be lumped in the same category as gifts to chorus boys or pipe dreams. One legal obstruction is thus brushed away; others, complicated by taxation, remain tightly snarled.
Drs. deTakats and Murray agree that speed of diagnosis and operation is essential. Says Dr. Murray: "Next to internal and external hemorrhage, embolism of the peripheral arteries is one of the most urgent surgical emergencies. Acute appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, perforated viscus, etc., while better treated at the first possible moment...
Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago...
Dr. Jackson advises people with removable dental bridges or sets of false teeth to take them out of their mouths before going to sleep. "Some people are extremely sensitive about this," he once told a group of Philadelphia dentists, "and it is amazing the number of people who are annoyed...
In spite of the obvious righteousness of his task, Senator Black finds the friends of his enemies and the enemies of all right-minded people not only numerous, but well-disciplined and clever. As soon as an inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and...