Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While all this was going on, the President sent a message urging Congress to pass a bill that may add a chapter to the quietly discordant history of the 79th Congress. It was the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill for a national health insurance plan, to be paid in part by compulsory salary deductions, in part from the Treasury, i.e., by added taxes. The bill, enthusiastically backed by Harry Truman, would guarantee medical care and hospitalization to every U.S. citizen working for a living, and for his dependents...
When Admiral Leahy was called to add to the testimony of Admiral Richardson on keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor, the headline in the Chicago Tribune said that he "forgets," in the New York Sun that he "denies," in the Philadelphia Record that he "doubts" and in PM that he "verifies" what Admiral Richardson said...
...attack, which has produced the astounding total of 138 first downs in the season to date, is 17-year-old Art Dakos, quarterback and passing sensation from Lowell, with Bill Penn, light-footed halfback, supplying the break-away runs. Walker does most of the kicking, and effectively enough to add one more item to the Eli offensive punch...
...President Truman's recent "Twelve Points," of U.S. foreign policy more weight than they had been accorded in the U.S. : "We should now make it clear to the United States that we will march at their side in the cause that President Truman has defined, that we will add our strength to their strength, that their stern, sober efforts shall be matched by our own. If everything else fails, which we must not admit, here is the best chance of survival...
...Rugged Path (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by The Playwrights' Company) represents Robert Sherwood's first playwriting in five years and Spencer Tracy's first Broadway play acting in 15. Something so newsworthy should add up to something more notable...