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...well-entrenched guard. On its general staff were New Deal intellectuals like Milton Katz, just another member of the WPB legal staff, actually Nelson's chief legal adviser; there was Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, Planner Bob Nathan, Statistician Simon Kuznetz, and at least one former businessman, Vice Chairman William L. Batt. Behind the scenes they campaigned and politicked to throw Eberstadt out, put Wilson...
...life at all ages was more than twice as large for Negroes as for whites. One reason: "This [white] population is much closer to the maximum expectation of life attainable with present knowledge than is the Negro population." >"One of the most gratifying features," said the report by Statistician Harold F. Dorn, "was the uninterrupted decline in the maternal mortality rate which previous to 1930 had shown no decline since . . . 1915. . . . This rate declined 48% among white mothers and 34% among nonwhite mothers. In 1940 the two rates were 3.2 and 7.7 per 1,000 live births, respectively." >Death rate...
...Republican Isolationist Lewis D. Thill in a Milwaukee German district which sent Socialist Victor L. Berger to Congress in 1918 as an anti-war representative. Son of a Baptist preacher, short, sturdy Democrat Howard McMurray, 41, is a licensed pilot, onetime Interstate Airlines operations and sales manager, onetime insurance statistician. Socialite women worked in his campaign headquarters, labor leaders supported him on the radio. His platform: post-war internationalism...
Even so, Dr. Elliott Joslin of Harvard, probably the No. 1 U.S. diabetes expert, and Statistician Louis Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. warn that the rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with...
...fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping tabs on Hawaii's food supply...