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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delegates of the American Medical Association met in Chicago to consider the recommendations of the conference. Although A.M.A. spokesmen had been hostile to any suggestion of "Federal interference" in medicine, the House made an about-face in Chicago, indicated their approval of: Government care for indigent patients, expansion of public health services, construction of Federal hospitals where needed, expansion of voluntary health insurance schemes. Their only remaining objection was to compulsory health insurance which was discussed at the conference...
...A.M.A. met for its goth annual convention in St. Louis and balked. The convention adopted a resolution declaring that it was "unmistakably and emphatically opposed" to all provisions of the Wagner Bill. The Bureau of Legal Medicine denounced it for unnecessarily expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing...
...foreign languages a nation chooses to study are, like its songs, one measure of its emotional condition. Last week Dr. Theodore Huebener, director of foreign languages in New York City's public schools, threw light on the present U. S. attitude toward foreigners in a report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German...
...Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between oldsters and youngsters, which is likely to divert to old age pensions public funds needed for Youth's education...
Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...