Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only do these individuals feel stagnated, but the desire of unions and large business organizations to form nation-wide insurance plans, and the vague but omnipresent threat of compulsory national health insurance has resulted in a desire for a larger and more effective Blue Cross. Two events in the last few weeks have outlined the crisis in the organization's structure and purposes...
...compulsory federal plan still seems a long way off, but it would be a shame to allow lack of cohesion to destroy the local administrative machinery of Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and their counterparts, if a national superstructure could be set up to deal with the problems of nation-wide coverage. Such supplementary programs as Connecticut's C.M.S. program to cover non-hospital medical expenses for families earning less than $7000 could be expanded similarly. One can only regret that voluntary insurance plans have taken so long to find out that Americans will take any steps necessary to avoid paying...
...since we all individually believe in, and affirm the rightness of opposition to the loyalty oath, we feel that our personal moral responsibilities have been met. But does not a social life entail social responsibilities--even for Harvard students? That a majority (as measured by Congressional action) of the nation outside of Harvard is in solid support of the loyalty oath, certainly has something to do with us and is partially our responsibility--particularly, if we fancy ourselves to be among the more enlightened of student bodies. And yet, despite these observations, we as students seem to be undisturbed...
...attached to Street Corner Research, since it has no connection with juvenile courts or social service reform agencies. In its two years of operation, however, Street Corner Research has shown the value of a new approach to juvenile delinquency, one that may be emulated in the rest of the nation...
Wingate's influential friends helped him fight back with an Appeal to King George VI, but the issue vanished with the outbreak of World War II. Wingate, as a guerrilla specialist, was ordered to Ethiopia, and he embraced that nation and its exiled Emperor Haile Selassie as fiercely as he had Zionism. He led his small Gideon force of British troops and Ethiopian irregulars in a brilliant campaign against a large but dispirited Italian army. Wearing shorts, and mounted on a white horse, Wingate proudly escorted Haile...