Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident outside the steel strike proper. A union committee appointed to settle a strike of the Consumers Power Co. obtained an agreement providing a 5? per hour pay rise, a 40-hour week, exclusive bargaining rights for the union, one week a year vacation and two weeks' sick leave, all with pay. When the terms were reported in the power houses early one morning the workers were indignant that they had not got 10? an hour raise. Without warning they pulled the switches, leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their 300,000 inhabitants as well as those...
...President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June 14), the chief fisherman was bald...
...eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania is suffering from a serious liver complaint following...
...told the President that they had carefully studied a two-volume survey which Miss Lape had published three days prior. Called American Medicine-Expert Testimony out of Court* these books contained the recommendations of 2,000 doctors for remedying the state of U. S. Medicine, including the difficulties of sick people in getting good medical services and the difficulties of good doctors in earning a decent living. Deliberately omitted from those questioned were doctors who might have an ax to grind, such as the executives and trustees of the American Medical Association...
Anyone seeing a well-dressed lady step out of her limousine to feed biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might well recall the old lady and tell the police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim...