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...Year, I nominate Surgeon General Thomas Parran, in recognition of his successful pioneer work in breaking down silly, Victorian public prejudice against a frank discussion of humanity's worst scourges, the venereal diseases...
...self-protection of the U. S.. Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted...
President Conant has been named a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the Public Health Service...
...Parran's announcement, President Conant is partially described as "author of textbooks on the subjects...
...Government's newly subsidized cancer research will take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose Civil Liberties Committee Luke Wilson Jr. is an investigator), of Secretary Roper. On July 19 Donor Wilson died, of cancer...