Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...
That is precisely the goal of the health officers of the nation led by Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, and prodded by Dr. William Freeman Snow, general director of the American Social Hygiene Association. They want victims of syphilis (especially) and gonorrhea to cease being furtive about their afflictions and to get treatment. In line with that program every case of those diseases must be registered precisely as though it were a case of typhoid fever. And, as with typhoid fever, health officers must track down the men & women disseminating gonorrhea...
History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...
...Parran used his installation as president of the American Public Health Association in New Orleans to blow the storm higher (TIME, Oct. 26). Between Christmas and New Year's he called some 600 public health officers and social hygienists, including Dr. Snow, to Washington, let them know that he had $10,000,000 to help them beat the venereal problem, let them urge him to ask Congress for $15,000,000 more...
...Snow caused last week to be designated a National Social Hygiene fete, got scores of meetings organized, got his old friend Dr. Wilbur (now president of the American Social Hygiene Association), and his newer friend Dr. Parran to make speeches for electrical transmission by dozens of radio stations which at last permitted discussion of the subject...