Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, who chanced to be in Portland at the moment.f Dr. Wilson declared that President Thayer had "railroaded" himself into office. He said: "I was in Washington looking on [at the 1927 A. M. A. Convention] when Dr. William Gerry Morgan was nominated for the presidency and without a campaign...
...physicians voting retained a clear picture of Dr. Morgan's high professional standing. He promised to try to-clarify the muddle of medical costs now vexing the profession. Dr. Morgan said he supposed "that the true difficulty may lie in the elaborate and expensive diagnostic procedures which the public has come to demand, as well as the luxurious nursing provisions which have come to be regarded as essential." He believes fewer complaints on medical costs have come from the poor than from...
...Schmidt of Chicago would demand of the Association his reinstatement in the Chicago Medical Society. That society last spring ousted Dr. Schmidt, famed genitourinary surgeon, because he was a urologist as well as chief of staff of the Illinois Social Hygiene League which treats charity patients of Chicago's Public Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals to take treatments the Institute advertised in Chicago papers. To the League the Institute paid $12,000 yearly to treat charity cases, and Dr. Schmidt as a League urologist took...
...though he is to group practice, for the sake of lowering costs to poor patients Dr. Harris recommended that doctors organize and incorporate pay clinics in their counties. Patients would pay fees according to their economic status. For charity cases the community would pay flat fees agreed to by public officials and the doctors. The doctors would split the profits of the clinic among themselves, as its stockholders...
Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...