Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trust fund, Ann Hewitt two-thirds-the daughter's share to pass to her children, if any, or to revert to her mother if she should die childless. In San Francisco last week Daughter Hewitt brought suit for $500,000 damages against Mother Hewitt, two physicians and a State psychologist. She charged that her mother, greedy for the whole trust fund income, had had her sterilized. From the fantastic miasma of charges and counter-charges which promptly enveloped the case, the following facts emerged undisputed. On Aug. 14, 1934 Mrs. Mary S. Scally, a State Health Department psychologist, examined...
...lack of education had been her own wilful fault. She had been dismissed from various schools "for various reasons," from one Philadelphia school "because of an incident too scandalous to mention." Always Mother Hewitt had striven to break "certain unfortunate little habits" in Ann. A statement from the attending physician supported her assertion that Ann had been born two months prematurely, weighing only 3 1/2 lb., in the feverish Paris of August 1914, that only exceptional motherly care had kept her alive. How could she be accused of seeking her daughter's income after she had spent large sums...
...year-old sterilization law applies only to inmates of prisons and asylums. The legal adviser of the State Board of Medical Examiners was of the opinion that any parent may have a minor child sterilized, that the child's only recourse is to sue parent and physician within one year after attaining majority. Ann Hewitt's was the first such suit he knew of. At week's end an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco offered, if Daughter Hewitt would back him up, to charge Mother Hewitt and the two physicians with mayhem, a felony punishable...
...soldiers to put corks on the points of their bayonets and her aviators to fill their bombs with cologne water. . . . Stockholm should say whether it desires our aviators before proceeding with a bombardment to release a couple of comrades in a parachute to ascertain whether there is a Swedish physician in the neighborhood...
Gold Chains; Ice Water- After so intimate a glimpse through the eyes of Man of the Year's longtime physician, His Majesty's achievements in 1935 are all the more staggering. They are the ripened fruit of a physically frail Semite's lifetime of goodness and wisdom. It was good to cast into golden chains the Ethiopian who would otherwise have been Emperor instead of Haile Selassie, for this individual had strayed into the Mohammedan faith. Had the late Lij Yasu been on the Throne today the League of Nations might not have displayed such anxiety...