Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, the Rev. Neil G. McCluskey argues for Government aid to parochial schools in providing for bus transportation, textbooks and health services. He contends that these services can be extended without violating church-state separation. But if the U.S. Government started to buy textbooks, provide transportation and maintain health services, then the trend would be to throw more and more parochial-school expenses on the Government. Thus it would provide a way for state-supported religious institutions, hence a fusion of church and state. MAX G. PHILLIPS Berrien Springs, Mich...
Latin America (a Rockefeller specialty) : In Dallas, he came out for a broad new Latin America program, including "economic union," stepped-up cultural exchange, and "imaginative" measures to deal with Latin America's lag in education and health...
...first," Lewis wrote the U.M.W. membership with the familiar flourish, "your wages were low, your hours long, your labor perilous, your health disregarded, your children without opportunity, your union weak, your fellow citizens and public representatives indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...
...years, Lewis showed labor statesmanship of the highest order. He continued to press for the wage increases that brought average U.M.W. pay from $6 a day in 1920 to $11.75 after the war to $24.25 today. He fought for, got, and managed with integrity a $150-million-a-year health-and-welfare fund, went to bat on Capitol Hill for important mine-safety legislation...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...