Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which place the practice of medicine in the U. S. under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional to procure patients ... by furnishing or inspiring newspaper or magazine comments concerning cases in which...
...reduction of personnel. Small complaint have Government jobholders against their boss, for most of them drew pre-Depression pay till April 1933, then took a 15% cut for a few months, now have won back all their original wages. Last week they set out to gain redress from the risk of marriage on the payroll...
...Edwina Austin Avery, publications editor of the Bureau of Plant Industry, pointed out to the House Civil Service Committee how unfair the law is to marriageable lady jobholders, how it spoils their prospects with all the job-holding males in Washington. Some girls, she said, prefer to risk their souls in sin rather than risk their jobs in marriage. E. Claude Babcock, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, testified that he personally knew of at least nine cases of jobholders living together without benefit of matrimony. Before nightfall, the question of Spread-the-Work v. Spread...
...General Staff this order seemed the acme of moderation, sheer leaning over backward, but the French cabinet saw it as increasing the risk of a war-provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin...
Rather than risk a crash landing in rough terrain, he decided to return to Washington, radioed Boiling Field to have a crash, crew and ambulance ready. Covering the 85 mi. without difficulty on two motors, he circled the field, glided in with one wing high, made a one-wheel landing which resulted in nothing more serious than a groundloop. Army flyers called the landing "a thing of beauty." Few minutes later Pilot Carmichael took off in another plane with three of his passengers, set them down safely in Detroit next morning...