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Said he: "It is no use to embark on discussions with a view to general settlement of differences, satisfaction of aspirations and removal of grievances unless those who come to the table are all convinced that all those who sit around it want a peaceable settlement and have no sinister idea in their minds. I say, therefore, that what we want to see is not only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements...
...Washington last July, Josephine Roche, former head of Federal health activities, told members of a National Health Conference that the Government proposed to embark on a ten-year public health program, to appropriate $850,000,000 annually for the job (TIME, Aug. 1). Lay delegates heartily approved, but officials of the American Medical Association bitterly objected to "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency...
...less than $1,000 a year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental...
Starting today, P. B. H. workers will embark on their semi-annual old clothing and textbook drive which will last until June 3. A special appeal is being made for cast-off clothing to be distributed by the Cambridge Family Welfare service...
...Peace and Preparedness, then took to playing ball with the British and ended up by saving the world for Democracy at a total cost to the U. S. of 126,000 lives and $40,000,000,000. If that was the tragic gamut Mr. Roosevelt was about to embark on, last week the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives wanted to know about it. In the Senate the President's mouthpiece answered categorically NO! Before a House committee the answer sounded for a while like maybe. This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull said...