Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smollett) changed Bath. One was a series of German "Baedeker" air raids, aimed at Britain's historical landmarks, which damaged or destroyed 19,000 buildings in Bath, and made the town overcrowded again. The other was the advent of Britain's Labor government. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan decided that suitable hospital cases could get free spa treatment under his National Health scheme. The Health Ministry found that it was not going to be easy to decide who was "suitable." A mere yen to go down to a spa like the rich folk would not make...
...shocker: Alger Hiss. Harvard-trained Alger Hiss (43-year-old brother of 41-year-old Donald) went to Washington as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became one of the brightest of the New Deal's young men. He was an assistant counsel with the famed Nye Committee, which investigated the munitions industry and was largely responsible for the Neutrality Acts. For ten years, until 1946, he had been one of the State Department's most trusted...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Labor's Health Minister, was in a reminiscent mood last week. But memories of a poverty-haunted childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
Sign or Starve? Many doctors were unhappy about it. Last February the Brit ish Medical Association had voted 10 to 1 (TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income...
William H. Nye '05, vice-President and Director of the Turner Construction Company, will chair the meeting. Charles S. Draper, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology instrumentation laboratory, is also scheduled to address the gathering...