Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients slept two and three in a bed. And there was not a hospital a Negro doctor could practice in. In 1931 the Rosenwald Fund, the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years, Mr. Stern got $200,000 from white citizens, $50,000 from Negroes...
With $500,000 Mr. Stern and a group of white and black doctors built Flint-Goodridge Hospital, a solid, severe, sun-flooded plant, with 100 beds, complete X-ray and clinical facilities for 30,000 patients a year. As superintendent they chose a Negro real-estate agent and insurance salesman, bland, 35-year-old Albert W. Dent. When Mr. Dent moved his family and furniture into a second-floor ward, Flint-Goodridge had neither patients nor staff. Most Negroes thought a hospital a place to come and die in. Of the 35 Negro doctors in New Orleans, only about...
...their ability to work. But you have also dealt hard blows, and if 200,000 of our enemies now lie on the snow drifts, gazing with broken eyes at our sky, the fault is not yours. You did not hate them or wish them evil ; you merely followed the stern rule of war: kill or be killed...
...since the fighting forebears of Brian Boroihme put to sea in currachs against Britain a millennium and a half ago has Ireland had a navy of any account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...