Word: assign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler for doctors' pocketbooks he would permit the present system of the private practice of medicine to continue, would have private practitioners dispense the free drugs, assign patients to the free hospitals. By the nature of Dr. Parran's plans, thousands of the 167,000 doctors in this country would be obliged to take jobs with city, state or Federal medical agencies. They would thus abandon the legalized privileges of the professional man, the right to deal...
...from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside...
Some who make a habit of criticizing the "most influential man in America" assign to Frankfurter the authorship of Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech--in spite of the fact that it is quite obvious to close observers that the ghost was Charles Michelson, ace New Deal publicity...
Photographic work in Fogg Museum has been turned over to the Film Foundation as a part of the plan to assign all University photography to this central laboratory...
...advisers now merely helping men to choose courses, after Mid Year should arrange for frequent meetings and assign work in the field that the Freshman thinks will be his selection for concentration. Thus the choice made by Freshmen at the end of the year would be more permanent and the upsetting shifting at the end of Sophomore year largely eliminated...