Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boas urges that all.large communities establish special chronic disease hospitals, that states create them in rural districts. Precise-minded, he specifies that such hospitals should have connecting pavilions for the three types of chronics, 1) patients requiring medical care for diagnosis and treatment, 2) patients requiring chiefly skilled nursing care, 3) patients requiring only custodial care. As a patient improves or declines he can be shifted to where he gets specific treatment. As for the smaller details, every three patients should have two wheel chairs at their disposal. Preferably not more than two should occupy a room. They should have...
...Ithaca, N. Y., 253 men and 350 women scanned twelve photographs given them by Dr. Richard S. Uhrbrock, assistant professor of Rural Education, lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid...
...Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri. The other politician in the Cabinet, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, represents city politics...
Conservative Wall Street brokers last week were flabbergasted by a spirited defense of stock trading which, to many, signified a major sociological shift. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
...rural Raritan, N. J., last week a Mrs. Joseph Bonini cuddled her child, six weeks. The infant gummed at her wrist watch. The watch slipped loose and into the baby's throat. The baby choked. Came rushing two policemen with a motorcycle and sidecar. Away they rushed over rough roads to a hospital, one in the sidecar holding the child. The motorcycle wiggled; the sidecar lurched; the policeman bounced; the baby shook; and the watch jiggled out of its throat. All was well...