Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government would finance training of doctors and nurses, expand its grants for hospital construction. Patients could choose their own doctors, and doctors could join or not join the program as they saw fit. Doctors could also reject patients. The doctors would be paid by the Government on either a salary or fee basis...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
...Annex Student Council members will join to run meetings and the Conference committee is headed by ex-president Joan Projansky '49 and Joan Braverman '50. More than 25 delegates are expected tonight...
...great day for the Irish. In carts and jalopies, thousands poured into Dublin to join the celebrations. The green, white and orange flag flew high from every masthead and on almost every street corner banners greeted the day with the words: "Welcome the Republic of Ireland." Only old Eamon de Valera was gloomy. "Public rejoicing is out of place," he said, "so long as our country remains partitioned...
...headlined the reason: about 2,500 students were on strike. For three days pickets paraded, hooted at "scabs," skirmished with police, cheered & jeered in mass rallies. They played dirges for the "death of democracy," took collections to "bury the bigots," flaunted signs inscribed NO HATE-MONGERS AT C.C.N.Y. and JOIN OUR QUIET RIOT. A long-simmering old dispute over two teachers, whom the college refused to fire, had boiled over...