Word: shafer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March of Dimes, got back $34,000 for patient care -and now the National Foundation said it could not allot more because all its funds were committed. Snapped Mayor Bartle to a foundation spokesman: "I think you have sold the people a bill of goods." Councilman Charles C. Shafer Jr. tossed in the time-worn allegation about high headquarters overhead: "There's just too much discount by the Foundation before the money gets to the people...
Already approved by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, and used by the U.S. armed forces, the mouth-to-mouth revival method is both the simplest and the oldest known to man. It returns to favor after years of reliance on such awkward physical maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of these gets as much air into a victim's lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person...
Final boost of strength for the coalition was the candidacy of nimble, fast-talking Councilman Charles Shafer, who had been dropped by the Citizens Council, and had quickly switched to the other side. With Shafer leading the coalition bush-beating, the Citizens Association lost five of its eight members on the council, and the city was assured of a new kind of rule. Also assured: the eventual resignation of City Manager L. P. Cookingham, the man who gave Kansas City that clean look...
...Shafer: They got a deal over there, boy. Those union men can go over there and get any BEEP BEEP thing done you want done. They are stronger than BEEP over there...
Rounding out two days of testimony, Chairman McClellan zeroed in on a reported plan by Teamster Shafer to jump a Southwestern driver, etch the word rat in acid on his forehead. Scowled angry John McClellan: "Don't you agree with me that anyone who would give such orders as that is a rat himself?" Slick-looking Teamster Shafer blushed, swallowed, declined to answer on ground that the answer might incriminate...