Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, whose organization is attempting to focus attention on the danger of cancerous growths. Other cancer workers who supplied the committee with information: Drs. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University. James Ewing of Cornell University, Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General...
...Belgian Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein from his plane two years ago, has a rich man pretending to be dead in order to assume a new identity. To humiliate his wife for not loving him the way he is, he wants to make her love him as somebody else. A surgeon changes him from a crook-shouldered, gross, bearded, bespectacled, wedge-nosed fellow, to a straight, handsome cineman-to the likeness in fact, of Warner Baxter, who plays the role in both guises. Elinor Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which...
Peter Dombkiewicz stood in the prisoner's box of a Buffalo court. Within arm's reach of the box stood David Glickstein, jeweler, who accused the defendant of stealing $9,000 of his merchandise. Suddenly Prisoner Dombkiewicz flipped out a surgeon's scalpel, leaned out of his box, slit the Glickstein throat. Said he vengefully: "That's how I treat squealers." On the bench Judge Alonzo G. Hinkley was outraged. Glickstein, not seriously injured, had his throat bandaged at a hospital, returned to court in time to hear the Buffalo jury say: "Guilty...
...four other members of the Harvard Faculty have been granted leaves of absence. Charles Palache, professor of Mineralogy and curator of the Mineralogical Museum, will be absent for the first half of the year 1930-31, while M. A. McIver, assistant professor of Surgery who has been appointed chief surgeon of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital at Cooperstown, New York, and M. B. Hexter '24, instructor in Social Ethics, will be away during this present half-year. E. S. Larsen, Jr., professor of Petrography, will be absent on a sabbatical leave during the second half...
...cases of psittacosis were reported, eight psittacosis deaths. In Washington, Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming ordered a nation-wide investigation of psittacosis, to be headed by Dr. Charles Armstrong. In Los Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...