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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy has kept the national health insurance introduced by Mussolini in the '20s. Almost 15 million of a working population of 25 million participate. Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries. The insurance organization has a salaried staff of 600 doctors who serve members, but the main medical burden is borne by 15,000 of the country's independent practitioners. Their bills are paid half by the insurance, half by the insured...
...bush-browed, pipe-smoking social scientist who looks younger than his 49 years. He was born in Texas, went to Texas public schools (in Austin) and the University of Texas, spent World War I as a private in Texas, and married a Dallas girl. In the early '20s, he took a Harvard Ph.D., later moved north and joined Harvard's faculty as an instructor in government...
...Grow Old. Masson was once the unwilling prize pupil of Fresco Painter Puvis de Chavannes. "I loathe frescoes," he said, "and I have never done one since." During the '20s he mounted Montmartre, began painting the accomplished macabra-dabra on which his reputation rests...
Molotov was chosen as a Politburo "nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...Yalemen would have agreed. When James Rowland Angell, amidst blaring bands and welcoming streamers, arrived in New Haven in 1921, he was the first non-Eli since 1766 to have been elected president of Yale - and Yale was never the same thereafter. For 16 years -through the roaring '20s, the big depression and the first days of the New Deal -Angell kept things stirring and growing. He built 37 new buildings on campus, nearly quadrupled Yale's endowment (from $25 million to $95 million...