Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Of the war she says, "I have done as much as any woman my age [63*] could do." With her column to produce daily (she is assisted by a ghostwriter), a heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell...
This year's design pictures a postman in commemoration of the Danish mail clerk who conceived the Christmas Seal idea in 1903. Each student will receive an envelope of seals November 27, payment for which will be on a voluntary basis.
The first U.S. voluntary hospital† to take both white and Negro physicians has succeeded "beyond expectation.'' This announcement about Harlem's Sydenham Hospital was made last week by Trustee Harry C. Oppenheimer.
When Sydenham began in a Harlem brownstone house in 1892, most of its ward patients were (as they still are) Negroes. But, like the rest of New York City's voluntary hospitals, Sydenham took no Negro doctors. Twenty years ago, the hospital moved to a fine new 200-bed...
The only hospitals in New York City where Negro doctors could practice were the free public hospitals, where all patients were ward patients. There was, in short, no hospital where a Negro doctor could send a private patient and continue to treat him. For sick Negroes, going to the hospital...