Word: shea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Katherine Shea, of the Treasury Department, called at the White House and presented the Chief Executive with a warrant for $5,833.33, his salary check as President of the U. S. It was in payment of services from Aug. 3, the date on which he took office. Said Mr. Coolidge:"Call often...
Extremists either for or against tobacco will derive small aid and comfort from Professor O'Shea's compilation of data on Tobacco and Mental Efficienc*?the most temperate, unbiased and scientific approach to the question yet published. The book is the first of a series of studies projected by the Committee to Study the Tobacco Problem, organized in 1918, a group of 59 physicians, psychologists, physiologists, economists, educators and other leaders interested in the subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs...
...Shea sent a questionnaire to 350 contemporary Americans who are recognized as having attained noteworthy distinction in ten fields. From these, 156 serious replies were received, 80 from smokers, 76 from nonsmokers. Again the results were thoroughly inconclusive. The physicians, psychologists and physical scientists might be presumed to be judicially minded, and the majority of their replies are to the effect that they havj discovered no perceptible influence, harmful or beneficial, on the intellectual powers of themselves or others. There are, of course, exceptions. The quotations are anonymous. The outstanding fact of this survey is that every...
...core of the book, however, is the scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three...
From the laboratory data, the author concludes that it is impossible to say that tobacco smoking will retard the intellectual processes of any one person, but in a large group it may be predicted that the majority will be slightly retarded. Dr. O'Shea takes pains to point out that the study was limited to minor intellectual processes and gives no answer regarding creative ability, judgment or general physical vitality. Conclusive tests on these matters are still to be devised...