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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voluntary health insurance] is not good enough. . . . What troubles me most are the needs of that sizable segment of society which does not earn enough to pay for voluntary insurance. . . . Nothing has been suggested so far which promises success other than some form of insurance covering these people in by law and financed by the Government, at least in part. ... A form of compulsory health insurance . . . can be devised . . . without the Government taking over medicine, something I would fiercely oppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch-Uncle Talk | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...only the Dutch, but also Mrs. Frank Ball, representative of the Virginia State Federation of Garden Clubs, who is convinced that without Dutch bulbs, U.S. gardens will degenerate into "patches of broom sage and squaw grass." Cried Mrs. Ball: "Are we going ... to deny [the Dutch] the opportunity to earn in trade the very dollars we are called upon to give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Over the Tulips | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...used to upset Brown last weekend, with the sole substitution of Stretch Mazzone at one end. The giueflugered pass receiver will be making his first Varsity start this year. Scrappy guard Jim Feinberg will act as captain in place of the permanently injured Vince Moravec. The latter will earn his letter in the traditional manner of Crimson and Blue competition by representing the team in the opening kickoff toes...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Odds Waver as Crimson Meets Blue Today in 64th Renewal of Classic | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...real American a true American an American cannot earn a living. If he could earn a living he could be waiting. Waiting is what makes earning a living be a part of existing and succeeding. No American can succeed no American can earn a living. It is only because Americans are part European that they can earn a living because and this I cannot say too often because waiting is part of earning a living and there is no waiting in an American. . . . That is what you can call demonstrated or elucidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for the Tired | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Will Wait? Some readers will agree with Thornton Wilder that although such writing may not really "elucidate" anything, it contains an interesting insight. They will agree that it is typical of Americans to be impatient, to move on rather than to stay put, to "make money" rather than earn a living in the closefisted way of the French peasant. If the ordinary reader cannot wait while Miss Stein circles about such ideas, that goes to prove her point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for the Tired | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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