Word: physician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator after Senator leaped to his feet to describe how the President's decree caused suffering and destitution among disabled veterans. West Virginia's Hatfield, a physician, produced an x-ray picture of a man whose thigh had been shot away and whose spine was full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest...
Islanders who continued to hope they would be appointed Governor of Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
...Manhattan, a Mrs. Novick. 250 lb., bought a railroad ticket for nearby Beacon, refused to get off when the train reached Beacon, rode free to Albany. At Albany Detective Harold Collar found her still obstinate, called a physician. The railroad car was hauled to a siding, the physician gave her a hypodermic injection, took her away in an ambulance...
...month-old Carol Krieg when she crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on his flock. Like daggers his big spurs flashed across the baby's head. A physician found the child's thin skull was fractured. Pneumonia set in and two days later Baby Krieg was dead. Hood River's Police Chief William Hart, the child's grandfather, ordered her murderer's execution...
Beginning this week anyone may buy all the good red liquor that his physician honestly believes he needs to maintain the patient's health. Before prescribing, the physician must give the patient a "careful physical examination." But if such examination is "impractical," the physician may prescribe "upon the best information obtainable a 3O-day, or in special cases, a 90-day supply...