Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indo-China. Somehow the report got into the hands of the Communists, as the worried French government learned last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president of the Vietnamese Students' Association in France, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Among various innocuous pamphlets in his briefcase, police found a copy of General Revers' top-secret report...
...more than a month the Italian senate had sought refuge in such nice-nellyisms as "case di tolleranza" (houses of tolerance), "case da te" (tea houses) or "persiane chiuse" (closed shutters). Last week, white-maned, octogenarian Gaetano Pieraccini lost his patience. "I am a plain doctor and a Florentine," he cried. "I call bread bread, wine wine and a brothel a brothel." No matter what they called it, Italian senators could no longer evade the issue: whether or not to close Italy's bordellos...
...Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...
...from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast. To pay for the decisive engagement which the A.M.A.'s top brass expects in 1950, conscript dollars were needed. The house of delegates ruled that any doctor who falls 13 months behind in dues would forfeit membership...
Gloomy Prognosis. At once, worried A.M.A. members asked whether a doctor who defaulted on A.M.A. dues would have to be dropped from his county or state medical society. If he were, he could not get staff appointments at most hospitals nor get his patients into their beds. Dr. Louis Bauer, chairman of the board of trustees, said that this need not happen...