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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A. M. A. members are Northerners, for Negro physicians are excluded from Southern county medical associations, hence from the parent A. M. A.* Both Northern and Southern Negro doctors are united in the Negro National Medical Association. Last May, when the A. M. A. held its annual convention in St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Sold, the convention upheld his honor. But Dr. Leach still clung on. Realizing that they would never win any concessions from the A. M. A. with Dr. Leach in the saddle, the association after six days of wrangling, finally ousted him, ordered its lawyer to fight the whole matter out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Radio call letters were first recognized in world broadcasting in the Treaty of Berlin in 1906, the first world radio treaty. In 1927, at the International Radio Convention in Washington, they were standardized, with various initial letters and combinations assigned to various nations. These were most recently brought up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: X (for Experimental) | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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