Word: hernia
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...exemption on the strength of a broken bicuspid or an ingrown toe-mail, especially if he really wants to enter one of the military services and is unable to pay the necessary medical bills. But under the voluntary provisions of F.D.R.'s plan many a man will retain his hernia and 4F classification rather than be cured and reclassified. Further, the large number of cases caused by malnutrition and improper exercise cannot be handled except in camps similar to the triple-C layouts. England, faced by a like problem, in a test case last year took one thousand rejectees...
Abed last week were not only Franklin D. Roosevelt (see p. 15), but Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, after a brief collapse from the heat; Democratic National Committee Boss Ed Flynn, with bronchitis, after measles; ex-New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman, following a hernia operation. Ill again of dysentery was Kermit Roosevelt in London, where failing health forced him to resign his commission as major in the British Army...
...acceptable to the Army. Neither way is promising. One way, a plan for "rehabilitation" of rejected men, was proposed last fortnight by Colonel Samuel Joseph Kopetzky, new president of the New York State Medical Society. He suggested that the Army provisionally induct all men with "remediable defects" such as hernia, bad teeth, venereal disease, etc., and establish hospitals to cure them. But the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee said, unofficially, no soap-the Army has its hands full already...
Last week, four days after his record-smashing race, 25-year-old Greg Rice, recently voted foremost U. S. amateur athlete, was declared physically unfit for the U. S. Army. Reason: triple hernia...
...Negro policeman whom Steve Early kneed was the father of five children. He had been cited for bravery. He had returned to duty three months before, after an operation for hernia. And when the incident occurred, no one knew which way the Negro vote would go. Manhattan newspapers published guarded interviews* with Patrolman Sloan, invalided to bed, in which he said that he had been kicked, that he felt terrible, and that he had been ordered not to talk. In Washington Steve Early denied that he had kicked a cop, admitted he had "given him the knee." Harlem...