MEDICINE: National Health

Public-spirited son of a public-spirited father is Theodore Roosevelt, 46. A gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had...

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