Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Dublin feels quite cheerful about the longer span of life in the U. S., the decrease in communicable diseases, the declining death rate from pneumonia. But, since his chief concern is with causes of death, he is regarded by many laymen as a great viewer-with-alarm. He publishes a series of creepy pamphlets every month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places...
...Marvel Mills Logan) and its tempestuous passage through the House. They heard nothing about a Kentucky colonel who had more to do with the bill than Mr. Walter did. The colonel: Ollie Roscoe McGuire, chairman of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Administrative Law, and a viewer-with-alarm of U. S. bureaucracy...