Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Charles E. Hurley has been keeping a close watch over the progress of the repeal bill, according to well-informed observers in political circles. Although it is generally supposed that he opposes the legislation, pressure of the Teachers' Union will be strong enough to prevent his veto...
After assisting a babe into the world, U. S. doctors customarily see to it that a few drops of silver nitrate are dropped into the infant's eyes to prevent blindness from venereal infection. In 20 States such prophylaxis is required by law. In eleven more it is mandatory under certain conditions. In Washington last week the District of Columbia Committee of the House of Representatives had before it a bill to require in the District eye prophylaxis at birth. The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a subcommittee...
...stuck. Committeeman Biederman argued Christian Science's case on, broad Constitutional grounds while physicians and welfare workers simply held out for silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes of Indiana tried to soothe Committeeman Biederman's agitated scruples by suggesting that eye treatment was very little different from giving baby a bath. Soothed or not, the District subcommittee upheld medical science over Christian Science, recommended that the Senate amendment be stricken from...
...Kennedy as he landed from Manhattan at the Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President got the Solicitor General to rule that it would not, if the stock were, sold. The 48-year-old Irishman gave in, took the job on condition that he may quit as soon as it is running smoothly...
Questioned on the efficacy of the Johnson Act to prevent American money from going to a defaulting debtor nation, Harris said that in this case the Act merely made it difficult for the French to issue the securities here, and that there was nothing to prevent the American investor from buying French securities in the foreign market just as he could buy francs...