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...convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea of what they were voting on. He found that out of 650 members, only a handful ever attended meetings, and this handful ran the post to suit themselves. Merson got madder...
Casting about for a civilian front man to head their regime and give it some badly needed prestige, members of Venezuela's military junta last week looked hopefully at Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldón, famed organizer of Venezuela's outstandingly successful fight against malaria. They wanted Dr. Gabaldón, a nonparty man, to take the place of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, assassinated during an abortive revolt in Caracas (TIME...
...director of health and safety for TVA, Dr. Eugene Lindsay Bishop has the job of keeping down malaria. It is a big job, because the 10,000-mile shore line of TVA's lakes offers the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. From the beginning, Dr. Bishop was convinced that the best way to fight mosquitoes was to raise and lower the water level in the reservoirs periodically. The plan worked, hit no snag until World War II's power shortage, when an engineer objected to dumping precious water. The Authority's top brass settled the dispute with...
...long to establish one, or to fire the 32nd's commanding general. Eichelberger bucked up morale by getting into the front lines where his riflemen could see him. Officers were shot down at his side (three of his brigadiers were wounded), but he was never hit, even escaped malaria. He lost 30 pounds in 30 days, but on Jan. 3, 1943 the troops had Buna. It was the first Allied ground victory of the Pacific...
...government has no social policy at all; in fact, it has no social sense. There are some emergency relief operations for the homeless, but nothing is done on a serious scale to combat the diseases (malaria, conjunctivitis, amebic dysentery) which ravage the country. There is no overall plan to help agriculture or expand education facilities...