Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a question of time. Under the Constitution, the bill would become law anyway not later than December 1949. Until then, all Acts of Parliament would continue to carry the traditional preamble: "Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons . . ." But afterward, a final flick of the Parliament Bill provided, even the words "the Lords" would disappear from the preambles...
...Munich, a denazification court gave 84-year-old Composer Richard Strauss a clean bill of health: all he had done while the Nazis were in power was stick to his unpolitical music...
...would become a member of the U.N.'s World Health Organization, after all. But the lawmakers wanted to make sure that the U.S. would not also catch a bad case of socialized medicine. To many Congressmen the key provision of the bill passed last week is the requirement that the U.S. representative on WHO's executive board must have "spent at least three years in active practice* as a physician or surgeon." The House wanted to make it ten years; that would have barred most of the experts who have spent their lives in the U.S. Public Health...
House committees that worked on the bill knew what they wanted-and didn't want. Indiana's Forest A. Harness (House Rules Committee) has charged that public health careerists are trying to force "socialized medicine on America by use of federal employees and Government money." What the U.S. wants in WHO, said he, is "some practical man, rather than some Government career...
...public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn't say a man 5 feet 7 inches tall with a mustache [see cut'], who was a graduate of Georgetown . . . That would have been a little too obvious...