Word: faired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becalmed at Key West, it seemed like a ruffling little breeze of news. Next day the nation's press (attributing its information to unnamed presidential "intimates" ) breathlessly reported that Harry Truman had spotted Ike as the Republican to beat in 1952. Considering Ike's series of anti-Fair Deal speeches (TIME, Dec. 12-19), the assumption did not seem too farfetched...
...from the U.S. Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through 75 of Ohio's 88 counties. He had delivered more than 300 speeches to more than 200,000 persons, laid down his fight against the Democrats' Fair Deal, and shaken thousands of voters' hands...
...Fair Deal: It would add $20 billion to the U.S. budget. "The Government would tell everyone when to work, what to do and when to sleep . . . It would lead to totalitarianism and a labor-socialist Government...
...rebels in the A.M.A.'s own ranks were not reassured. New York Clinician Ernst P. Boas loosed a blast for the Physicians' Forum, which favors the Fair Deal's national health plan. The dues levy, said he, "is against the interests of a majority of Americans, who need a national prepayment system of medical care ... It will convert the professional organization of America's physicians into a political lobby...
...formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...