Word: obstetrician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Samuel Green, 59, scrawny, nervous, Himmler-mustached Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan;* of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A small-time obstetrician who looked more like a frustrated shoe clerk than the ruler of an Invisible Empire, Green climbed the Klan ladder in comparative obscurity until he got the job of Grand Dragon. Postwar, he shuffled off Klan debts, whipped up membership, emerged as undisputed führer of racial and religious bigotry in the South...
Because "certain irresponsible persons" were giving the Ku Klux Klan "bad publicity and censure" by wearing bedsheets and masks in the commission of their crimes, Grand Dragon Samuel Green, Atlanta obstetrician, last week issued an Imperial Edict: henceforth Klansmen must not wear masks "upon any street, road or highway in these United States...
...Atlanta, a bigoted little obstetrician named Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities...
...still fairly slow and cumbersome. Most also require experimental animals. The tests using rabbits take 48 hours; the standard frog test takes twelve hours, and the newer frog test (TIME, March 21) two hours. A skin test takes five days and is not very accurate. Last week Northwestern University Obstetrician Garwood C. Richardson announced a chemical test that requires no animals, takes only half an hour at most, is 100% accurate, and works within three weeks after conception...
...British obstetrician reasoned it out, childbirth is a natural process, and should not be painful. He decided that the pain that does come with normal birth is caused by fear. Fear causes tension, he explained, and tension causes the muscles of the uterus to work against one another, which causes pain...