Word: parran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the book is lively and practical enough to hold most adults, 63-year-old Dr. Stimson, an ardent bird-lover, occasionally reverts to the goody-talk of pre-Parran days. Sample...
...Service quietly began to print dowdy little pamphlets on birds, flowers & sex which it handed out to parents and schoolteachers for the price of a stamp. Later it dared dry little whispers on the cause and treatment of venereal disease. Three and a half years ago, when dynamic Thomas Parran was appointed Surgeon-General, he promptly starched up the publicity of the Public Health Service, egged on press and radio to utter the unutterable words "syphilis" and "gonorrhea...
Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...
...Education jointly issued a manual for teachers called High Schools and Sex Education. It was written by famed free-lance Educator Benjamin C. Gruenberg and J. L. Kaukonen of the Public Health Service. A similar manual, written by Dr. Gruenberg in 1922, got nowhere, but Surgeon General Thomas Parran, encouraged by his recent success in killing another taboo-discussion of venereal disease-had high hopes for this new campaign. Said he: "Many people see sex dimly through a mist-dangerous, but mysteriously attractive. . . . Modern psychology and medicine . . . have shown over and over again the need for replacing taboos and ignorance...
American Social Hygiene Association Inc. (Wed. 1:45 p. m. NBC-Blue) gives the floor to Eleanor Roosevelt, a medal to U. S. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran...