Word: tillman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges and counter-charges which promptly enveloped the case, the following facts emerged undisputed. On Aug. 14, 1934 Mrs. Mary S. Scally, a State Health Department psychologist, examined Ann Cooper Hewitt in San Francisco, gave the 20-year-old girl a mental age of 11. Dr. Tilton Edwin Tillman, Mrs. Hewitt's physician, recommended that Ann be sterilized as feebleminded. On Aug. 18, suffering from appendicitis, the girl was taken to San Francisco's Dante Sanatorium. In the course of an appendectomy the surgeon, Dr. Samuel George Boyd, at Mother Hewitt's request and without Daughter Hewitt...
Daughter Hewitt claimed that the mental test had been given to her while she was suffering from appendicitis, that Dr. Tillman had told her it was merely to see "whether her heart could stand the ether for the operation." Some of the questions & answers on which Psychologist Scally based her mental rating: Q. What is the longest river in the U. S. A. I don't know. Q. How many years are there to a Presidential term? A. Two. Q. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? A. To make a pilgrimage...
...sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries or to tie off or cauterize the Fallopian tubes. Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter Hewitt was feebleminded, declared their action was an everyday occurrence. "I didn't worry about the legal aspects of the thing," said Surgeon Boyd, "figuring a mother had the right to request such an operation, since...
...Tillman Merritt, instructor and tutor in Music, is acting as guide and conductor; Oliver R. Straus '36, and Harrison Wood '36, are the organizers. The other members are Kenneth Cameron '34, Robert R. Corell '35, Robert S. Chafee '36, John N. Edson '36, Charles R. Rockwell III '36, and Albert Thorndike...
...Brooklyn, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Mulholland tuned in their radio on a rescue mission hour. Into the room came the words, "I will now introduce 'Spider' Tillman and he will tell you of his experience in this world of sin." While Frederick ("Spider") Tillman told how Christianity had redeemed him from a life of sin, Mrs. Mulholland went white & whiter, John Mulholland went red & redder. Spider Tillman was the first husband whom Mrs. Mulholland had claimed to be dead. John Mulholland called on him at the rescue mission, then sued for annulment of his own marriage...