Word: wilmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...disease out of the U. S.; it has nevertheless crept in. Over 70,000 Amerindians are reported to have it. It is most common in the Alleghenies, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois. Last week, it was suggested that trachoma be made a subject of special research at the Wilmer Institute for Diseases of the Eye, now being built by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, Baltimore, Md. Said Dr. John McMullen, trachoma expert: "It is a dreadful disease. I saw a girl once who had kept her arm over her eye for 18 years-so long that...
...cortege entered by the doorway over which is inscribed "The Way of Peace." Mrs. Wilson, accompanied by her brother, Wilmer Boiling, followed, with Mrs. William G. McAdoo and Miss Margaret Wilson, daughters of the late President, and Mr. McAdoo, white and haggard...
...Stuart jr. '21, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cox-Roosevelt Club of Harvard, announced yesterday that the drive which the club has been conducting called the "Match the President Fund" has been successfully completed and that the check for $500 was mailed last night to Wilmer W. Marsh, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...