Word: pan-american
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Flying Clinic. Latin Americans have a helpless detestation and envy of U. S. dominance of their aviation. On the other hand they have full trust and frank good-will for U. S. medicine. The conflicting emotions griped many a Latin American solar plexus last week, as two plane loads of U. S. physicians and surgeons hopped, skipped and jumped through eleven countries, holding hasty clinics at pauses. On the whole, local practitioners who could not attend the Pan-American medical congress meeting at Panama City, R. P., were grateful for this U. S. aerial intrusion...
...Next meeting of the Pan-American Medical Association will be at Lima, Peru, beginning Jan. 31, 1931. President is C. Paz-Soldan of Peru, president at large Maria Fernandez of Cuba...
...insurance investigation (1905-06), Governor of New York (1907-10), Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1910-16), defeated Republican nominee for President (1916), Secretary of State (1921-25), member of the permanent Court of International Justice (1926), chairman of the U. S. delegation to the sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (1928), president of the American Bar Association (1924-25), a prime campaigner for Herbert Hoover (1928). His judicial tendency: toward a conservatism less cheerful than Mr. Taft...
Twenty-five expert U. S. physicians and surgeons journeyed last week from their homes to attend the impending convention of the Pan-American Medical Association at Panama City. Simultaneously five others, assembled at Miami, did something unusual, eminently practical. They loaded surgical equipment into two Pan American Airways' planes, started a 6,808-mi. tour of Caribbean countries, as the first "Flying Clinic." Their work will be to demonstrate latest U. S. surgical and medical practices to Latin American doctors who are unable to attend the Panama convention...
...golfers who travel from tournament to tournament had nothing to do between autumn days in the East and the first southern events in February, a committee in Biloxi, Miss., organized an event for them two years ago. For a reason never clear and now forgotten, it was called the Pan-American. The greatest women stars in golf played in it when it started; this year the gathering was less notable. When all the matches but one had been played, the field was cut down to Mrs. Marion Turpie Lake and Mrs. Melvin Jones. Mrs. Lake, who won many cups...