Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of Dean Plimpton and his associates is essentially that of broker or middleman. He cannot and would not, if he could, pull jobs out of his pockets like a beneficent Santa Claus. But his organization can and does perform all in its power "to help a man help himself...
...live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children do not inherit leprosy. But they may catch it by associating with their parents. Therefore, scientists have decided that lepers had better not marry...
...Eric Randolph Wilson, 51, of Los Angeles was arrested in Seattle last spring on charges of conspiring to perform abortions. Lack of evidence gained Dr. Wilson an acquittal. His associate, a skillful amateur named Paul de Gaston, was fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...
...virtual sell-out ticket prices for the Leverett Dance tonight have been raised to $2.50 for couples and $1.50 for stags. Added attraction of the evening is Phill Claff, accordian specialist, who will perform during dinner...
Last week California's Superior Judge John J. Van Nostrand upheld the lower court. California chiropractors, declared he, have "no legal right to perform an operation upon the teeth of a patient or treat the eyes; no right to administer or prescribe medicines or drugs. While x-ray may be included for diagnosis or analysis, it cannot be used in the treatment of disease or illness. Such appliances or agencies as the chiropractic tables, hammer, towels or other instrumentalities which are clearly sanitary do not violate the statute, but the use of various therapeutic agencies, such as electro-therapeuty...