Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they could cope with the millions entitled to care under the Truman program...
...thousand years the feudal capital of Japan, Kyoto is still the nation's capital of learning and culture. Its small luxury shops are almost as bright, smart and busy as when Kyoto was called Japan's Paris. Its many huge temples make Kyoto, like Rome, a city of bells. As Japan's holy city, and a second-rate target to boot, Kyoto escaped bombing. Last week, amid spring's pink and white cherry blossoms, Kyoto seemed full of changeless charm. But beneath the surface stirred the changes of postwar U.S. occupation and tutelage. Surveying the scene...
They had two children,* wrote and made their living as free-lance journalists and translators. Muñoz contributed to the New Republic, the Nation, the Baltimore Sun and Henry L. Mencken's Smart Set and American Mercury. Of his poetry Muñoz now says: "It stinks...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...
...professors were dropped from the University of Washington faculty after the University Senate, a faculty body, had voted not to dismiss them. The president of the University, Raymond B. Allen, overrode the decision of the faculty organization. The case has aroused great interest in other colleges all over the nation...