Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. last year 2,500 low-salaried Government employes chipped in to form Group Health Association, Inc., which hired nine physicians to provide complete medical care for members. Scarcely had the first patient visited the well-equipped G. H. A. clinic when the District Medical Society, a branch of the American Medical Association, turned on the heat. It has been accused of refusing to let G. H. A. doctors use local hospitals, consult with local specialists. Reason: G. H. A. is a health-insurance project, and the A. M. A. is opposed to group health insurance combined with...
...Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) got his M. D. from Heidelberg. That year and the next United States Hair Co. borrowed nearly $1,000,000 on invoices signed by branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage...
...doctors, research problem No. 1 is cancer. No. 1 sleuth organization is the recently established National Advisory Cancer Council, a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service. Several months ago Surgeon General Thomas Parran appointed a committee of five eminent researchers* to correlate all the facts discovered about the cause and growth of cancer in the last 30 years. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service released the scientists' report. Significant facts...
...delegation will include Robert E. Lane '39, president of the American Student Union as well as the local branch, and John S. Stillman '40, president-elect of the Harvard Student Union. All men who wish to go along as observers are welcome, stillman, announced last night, and should get in touch with Paul Olum '40, treasurer and vice-president-elect, who is in charge of the University delegation...
...sound-offs sounded like Republican campaign speeches. Two years ago under the guidance of Chairman Colby Chester of General Foods Corp., N. A. M. developed a new attitude, something which might be termed "reasonable liberalism," approving certain New Deal reforms, asking for modest changes, waving the olive branch rather than the hatchet. Last week the Voice of Industry, despite some raucous cracks from the gallery, maintained this conciliatory tone...