Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shipler, The Churchman, and especially the criticism of Unitarian Leon Birkhead [TIME, Feb. 28] points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding fathers endeavored to write into our Constitution...
Trim Mrs. Ida Saks said that the state police must be called in to probe the "foul situation." If the "city government does not clean up ... the women can and will, with God's help." A righteous cheer rose...
Ride on the Escalator. Actually, few British doctors now make less money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...
There have been some complaints about red tape and delays, chiefly against dentists, who must get an O.K. from their Dental Estimates Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...
Sixty-six years ago, Prince Otto von Bismarck's Germany set up the first national "Sickness Insurance" plan, covering industrial workers. Kaiser Wilhelm I had proclaimed: "The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...