Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago New York's law makers, enviously noting that California collects some $2,000,000 a year from the 4% tax on the pari-mutuel handle at its race tracks, finally turned a deaf ear to lobbyists, passed (33-To-14 in the Senate, 110-to-36 in the Assembly) a resolution for a constitutional amendment to legalize pari-mutuel betting. Under New York law, however, it had to be passed by two successive Legislatures before it could be submitted to the voters for referendum...
...Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California...
...late 1920's California citizens began to clamor for large-scale, low-cost medical care. Last November, when liberal Democrat Culbert Levy Olson was elected Governor, he promised to sponsor a State system of compulsory health insurance. This threat of "government interference" spurred the California Medical Association, which for over ten years had been hatching health-insurance schemes, to announce a counterplan...
...California Physicians' Service is the first State-wide system of medical care in the U. S. Insurance is limited to employed groups of five or more persons whose incomes are less than $3,000 a year. For rates of $2.50 a month per person, subscribers will receive complete medical and surgical care and three weeks' hospitalization for any one illness...
Patients will choose their own doctors and doctors will send their bills to the organization, will receive standard sums. All 6,000 members of the California Medical Association are expected to pay a $5 initiation fee and join the organization...