Word: physician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are so few hospitals where a woman physician or surgeon can get an important post on the staff that the professional members of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
Last week began another of those trips. Cleared of conspiring with Oilman Edward L. Doheny to defraud the U. S., Fall has yet to be cleared of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
...Pawtucket, R. I., Dr. William Rothwell, 63, is known as a good physician, a generous host. For 30 years he has always reached for his wallet, always stood treat. Recently he ordered his tombstone. A great boulder, it now stands, ready, in a local cemetery. His inscription: "This...