Word: mcgoldrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward McGoldrick, 39, is head of a special New York City bureau to assist the city's estimated 12,000 drunks. New York is the first big U.S. city to do more for alcoholics than throw them in jail...
...McGoldrick, lawyer son of a onetime New York State Supreme Court Justice, got over drinking with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous four years ago. Last year, when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to appoint him an assistant corporation counsel, he refused, asked to be allowed to work with drunkards instead...
...McGoldrick's patients were 100 bums who had been drinking for years-onetime lawyers, doctors, actors, a hansom-cab driver, engineers, chemists, printers, clerks, laborers. Most were helped by Alcoholics Anonymous meetings; others by long talks with McGoldrick aimed at overcoming their feelings of inadequacy...
...Mayor was convinced that McGoldrick's methods were sound-75 of the patients now support themselves...
...Lucas, Jr., K. W. Lund, H. A. Mackin, D. A. MacMillan, C. V. Martin, J. R. Maynard, V. W. McDaniel, W. L. McGoldrick, W. C. McMillan, H. W. Menard, E. F. Merrey...