Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disastrous war with Palestine. After he seized power (TIME, April 11), he shot no one and jailed only a few, but in his 4½ short months of dictatorship he made many enemies. He offended Moslem religious leaders when he proposed that women give up their veils, gain the vote; he alienated the wealthy because he raised taxes, the merchants because he lowered prices. Nationalists were sore because he gave concessions to the U.S. Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and signed an armistice with Israel...
...This action," he declared, "will serve notice to the socializers who are attempting to besmirch American medicine for purposes of political gain that medicine recognizes no boundaries." Dr. Murray, it developed, is a firm opponent of Harry Truman's health program...
...Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
...ability to deliver the atomic bomb." 2) "England, France, and the closer countries will have the bulk of the short-range attack bombardment and air defense." 3) "The hard core of the ground power in being will come from Europe." The program, Bradley said, was "an opportunity to gain, at a minimum expense, additional measures for our own security...
...messages from more than half the members of Congress to their constituents; some were five-minute talks, others were 15-minute question & answer platters. Most were concerned with the congressional news of the week. Local stations broadcast the discs as "a public service ... in the hope that listeners will gain a better understanding of the serious problems confronting our legislators...