Lewis A. Conner, MD (1867–1950), and lessons learned from examining four million young men in World War I

1988 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 900-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Wooley
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World War ◽  
Lewis A

Anglo-Jewry and the Jewish International Traffic in Prostitution, 1885–1914

AJS Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 129-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd P. Gartner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
The Town ◽  
International Traffic

Our tale opens in some little town in the Pale of Settlement between the 1880s and World War I. A well-spoken, well-dressed young man appears and courts an attractive girl of a family belonging to the great majority of the Jewish townspeople—that is, impoverished and burdened with many children. The unknown suitor offers charm and gifts, and speaks knowingly of the great places he has seen and where he has a good business—Paris, Johannesburg, London, or New York. Will the girl accompany him westward and become his bride once they reach their destination.He does not want to stay long enough in town to marry publicly, since he might be seized for military conscription. The girl, excited by the prospect, implores her parents to give their consent to this proposal. She feels she loves this young man. With him, the bleak life and dismal future in the town will be exchanged at a stroke for happiness and prosperity in a great, distant city. Every month a few young townspeople were leaving, mainly for America. Already there were many more marriageable girls in town than there were young men for them. How could such a chance be thrown aside? Might it ever recur? If the girl wondered why of all the numerous poor girls in town she was enjoying these attentions, she would answer in her own mind by complimenting herself on her prettiness. Her parents, or her surviving parent or step-parents, gave their consent.

Washington, D.C. and New Orleans: 1942–1948

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-215
Author(s):  
Craig A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World War ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
Red Tape

DeBakey is made Consultant in the Surgeon General’s Office, participating in personnel assignments, modernization of equipment, and much writing. Military red tape vexes his efforts to prevent a repeat of the medical lessons learned during World War I, and the soldiers suffer as trench foot reappears. Auxiliary Surgical Groups are formed for front-line surgery. DeBakey tours the armies in Europe, compiling data for scientific analysis. After the war, DeBakey remains in uniform for a year, is appointed to a full Colonel and other positions of importance, and returns to New Orleans a figure well-known to leaders in American medicine and politics.

Bringing the Daughters Back

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-235
Author(s):  
Rachel Manekin
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
First World War ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Female Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Running Away ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This chapter looks at the model of Orthodox female education developed in Kraków, where the teachers' seminary was adopted as the highest learning institution for young Orthodox women. It discusses the rebellion of the daughters in Habsburg Galicia that continued until World War I as many young daughters, even young men, from Orthodox Jewish homes abandon the ways of their parents. It also points out how the phenomenon of Galician young Jewish females running away and seeking refuge in the Felician Sisters' convent eventually stopped. The chapter explores how the First World War changed the map of the Habsburg Empire and made Galicia in 1918 part of the newly created Second Polish Republic. It elaborates how the laws in the Second Polish Republic eliminated the legal conditions that facilitated the runaway phenomenon.

Alice Welford (1887–1918), a nurse in World War I: The impact of kindness and compassion

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
PeterJ Watkins ◽  
Valerie J Watkins
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
World War ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Military Nursing ◽  
The Impact

The contribution of nurses to the morale of wounded and dying young men during World War 1 was immense. Alice Welford came from the small North Yorkshire village of Crathorne, joined the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service in 1915 and spent the following two and one half years in nursing casualties from some of the fiercest battles of the war including Gallipoli and Salonika. She kept an autograph book inscribed by wounded and dying soldiers, with poignant verses and humorous drawings showing love, wit and tragedy. Despite the dreadful conditions, kindness and compassion brought them comfort and raised their morale – a critical message for today, and Alice’s gift to us from World War I.

scholarly journals Joseph Alexander Gray, 1884-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
X Rays ◽  
World War ◽  
Just Cause ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The World ◽  
Light Atoms ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
High Standards

Inspired by his enthusiasm for radioactivity that dominated his whole life as a physicist, J. A. Gray became one of the pioneers by joining Rutherford’s group at Manchester in 1909. In his life’s work he experienced three major rebuffs that he resented with some cause. His response to each reveals his strength of character and tenacity. To his biographer, however, with the hindsight of history, Dr Gray’s greatest ill-fortune appears to have been something quite different and indeed provoked by the same traditions that reinforced his strength. He hastened off to war, as his father and uncles as young men had done before, responding to the compulsion of a just cause. He enlisted as a private in the Canadian Artillery where in 1915 and 1916 all his talents, except strength of character and forceful commanding presence, were wasted at a time when he had a long lead over the world of physics in understanding the complex interactions of β-rays, γ-rays and X-rays with heavy and light atoms. World War I dealt other severe blows to that phase of science with H. G. J. Moseley killed at Gallipoli and W. L. Bragg, and others, later joined by Gray, diverted to sound-ranging on gunfire. It is for his initial inspiration of so many able students who became physicists of note that the world owes most to J. A. Gray, but those who knew him will remember his many kindly acts and the high standards he set for himself and for his students, both in science and in social deportment.

Andere Stimmen – Protest gegen Krieg und Gewalt in der polnischen und ukrainischen Dichtung über den Ersten Weltkrieg

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1 (464)) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Alois Woldan
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
World War ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
At Home

Polish and Ukrainian poetry on World War I have much in common: they were written mainly by soldier-poets, young men fighting in the Polish Legions or the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. This poetry is, first of all, a patriotic legitimation of the war as a way of regaining political independence. Heroism and suffering for the fatherland are dominating issues. Nevertheless, besides this pathetic gesture, we can find voices that point out the horror of war and question it at all. Such criticisms is expressed by certain motives, which appear in both the Legions’ and the Sich Riflemens’ poetry, like: fratricide, lists from soldiers to their families at home, devastation of nature and culture, autumn and death, as well as pacifist notions. These voices do not form any dominant discourse in the poetry on World War I, but they are not to be ignored, as they mark a common place in the Polish and Ukrainian literature at this time, which has not been researched until now.

Weir(d) Sex: Representation of Gender-Environment Relations in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
S C Aitken ◽  
L E Zonn
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Dynamic Theory ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gender Images ◽  
Western Australian

Soft images of pubescent women scaling the dizzy heights of a massive phallic rock in turn-of-the-century rural Victoria, and young men matching physical prowess in the indomitable Western Australian desert as World War I rages in Europe, provide foci for two of Peter Weir's most successful early films, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Gallipoli (1981). In both these films the physical landscape is simultaneously integrated with and contrasted to the passions of young men and women. The result is an aesthetic that takes the viewer beyond the immediate narrative to a place where masculinity and femininity find expression. In this paper, transactional and psychoanalytic perspectives are used to interrogate the gender images which are portrayed in both these movies, linking them to some concepts which find currency in ecofeminism. The concern is with the individual struggle between the powerful, complex, and yet less-than-rational forces that are integral to the nature of our individual beings and the rational nature of prevailing societal values that supposedly provide us with guidance. A dynamic theory of contemporary film is implicit in our discussion of “images in motion over time through space with sequence”. These elements—along with an overlay of shape, size, scale, color, sound, and light—arc the cues that provide meaning for Weir's portrayal of wo/man-in-environmcnt relations. Suggested in this paper is a broader narrative which speaks to a postmodern sexual order and its representations in social theory and contemporary cinema. Crucial questions are raised regarding the ways that cultural identity is grounded in class and gender.

The Beginning of Rugby Union in Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Slaviša Milenković
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War I ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Sports Team ◽  
French And English ◽  
British Colonies

Summary The first direct contact with rugby was made by young men from Serbia during the First World War, after retreating through Albania, watching matches of French and English soldiers. During 1916, some 3,500 Serbian boys were sent to France and the United Kingdom to study. During their education at lyceums, colleges and universities, they were given the opportunity to play various sports, including rugby union. In keeping with their interest and quality, the Serbian boys quickly became involved in the school teams. Most Serbian boys actively participated in playing rugby in three Scottish cities - Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. Their interest in the sport was so much that in Edinburgh and Glasgow they formed special teams made up only of Serbs who played matches with other school teams. The highlight of dealing with Serb rugby in Scotland was the performance by the boys of the George Heriot School at the Rugby 7 tournament on March 9, 1918 in Edinburgh and a victory over the British Colonies selection. This performance can be considered the first appearance of a sports team under the name of Serbia on the international stage. After the end of World War I and the return to the homeland, some of the young men who became acquainted with rugby in France and the United Kingdom actively participated in academic and sports life in their homeland and the result was the establishment of two rugby clubs, in Sabac and Belgrade.

Crisis, 1919–1920

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas I. Faith
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the Chemical Warfare Service's (CWS) struggle to continue chemical weapons work in the face of a hostile political environment as the U.S. Army sought to digest the lessons learned from World War I under the budget constraints of the postwar period. It considers the uncertain future of the CWS and chemical weapons after the war as the American public reacted against modern weapons in general and poison gas in particular because of the battlefield suffering it had caused. It also discusses the attempts of policymakers in the Department of War and the U.S. Army to limit all chemical warfare activities in the armed forces after the armistice. Finally, it examines how the CWS, primarily under the leadership of Amos A. Fries, tried to counter anti-gas sentiment and promote chemical weapons and manage to lay a foundation that would allow them to continue improve their reputation through the 1920s.

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