Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican doctors cried that this prescription was both too vague and too sweeping; in effect it asked for unlimited powers. The patient might be doctored right out of existence...
Into this deadlocked consultation stepped the Federal Reserve Board's Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, a man with decided opinions of his own. To Eccles, the Administration's program was no more than dabbing at the patient's beak with a soggy handkerchief. It might curb the effects of inflation; it would not cure the cold...
...Patient Van. Next day, on the Senate floor, wild and woolly debate broke forth. In it, the leadership of Arthur Vandenberg, whose Foreign Relations Committee had reported out a bill giving the Administration the full sum it asked for, was sorely tested by his fellow Republicans. Patiently, Vandenberg accepted one carping amendment after another-e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor insisted on having it down in black & white that aid funds should not be used to buy arms...
...patient did not want to talk, but the doctor's machine-gun questions shook out his story: he had taken to heavy drinking, had violent dreams of military battles (with sexual symbolism), at length confided that he was impotent. From the dreams and other symptoms, the doctor made a rapid diagnosis (which later proved correct): the patient's real trouble was a deep-seated fear that he was a homosexual...
...psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...