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...Chicago health authorities were badly worried by "an unexpected, even startling" number of cases revealed in the answers to its questionnaire. Believing the danger much greater than appreciated by most physicians. President Herman X. Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health arranged for a nationwide radio broadcast to warn and instruct the country. Some authorities believe that one in every ten or 20 persons harbors dysentery parasites. The disease may recur long after an apparent cure. Applicants for food-handling jobs should be examined several times, required to keep themselves thoroughly clean. Those who have had the disease should...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended you should...
...last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering and price-gouging in the textile trade...
...must admit, something nauseous about this promptitude, something reminiscent of all the vapid press nonsense which accompanied John Coolidge and Allan Hoover to the Business School in 1929. When Florence Trumbull said that John was not to drive a car, when H. H. crisped the wires to warn Allan against the talkies, a gawpish public moved in. Even in those days it was all very unpleasant. Perhaps those Spanish trunk labels hold little promise after...
Almost all that physicians could do for St. Louis sufferers was to isolate them, see that they got careful nursing, warn their relatives not to confuse the disease with infantile paralysis or waste time and money on "cures." Lumbar punctures (to drain spinal fluid), obligatory for the first few days, gave the only relief. Various symptoms must be treated individually as they arise. Some drugs-sodium salicylate, atropine, pheno-barbital-have been helpful in scattered cases in the past...