Word: parran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When crusty old Andrew Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury in 1926, he gave an up & coming young doctor named Thomas Parran a big chance-an appointment as an Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week the trustees of Mellon's huge fortune presented $13,600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh for a new Graduate School of Public Health. The man named dean of the new school was Dr. Thomas Parran...
...Pitt Dr. Parran will have an ideal opportunity to capitalize on his years of public health experience. (As Surgeon General since 1936, he fought long and well to bring venereal disease under control. Last February President Truman fired him without explanation-TIME, Feb. 23.) The school, the most heavily endowed of its kind in the U.S., will be open only to graduate physicians, dentists, nurses, and others trained for public health work, and will concentrate heavily on research in the field of industrial health. As to its opening date, Pitt's Chancellor Rufus H. Fitzgerald said: "The university would...
...Without the usual polite little note of farewell, President Truman dropped Dr. Thomas Parran from his job as: 1. White House physician. 2. Army Surgeon General. 3. Navy Surgeon General. 4. U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General. 5. Medical advisor for Indian reservations...
...three-year provision seems to rule out Dr. Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn...
...Parran's five predecessors served 19 years, another...