Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manuscripts must be submitted to the Committee on the Cardoze Prize, Emerson 301, or to Professor Oscar Handlin, acting chairman of the Committee, on or before Monday, April...
...commissioners have not always had a good time. Commissioner George F. Zook quit in 1934, after one year, for a job as president of the American Council on Education. The last commissioner, John Ward Studebaker, held the post for 14 years, then (after policy disagreements with new FSA Chief Oscar R. Ewing), resigned in June with the explanation: "I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." Ewing had spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership...
Last fall Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing dropped a bombshell: a program of compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members...
...wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that great patent-medicine man . . . apparently is grimly determined to bring socialized medicine from sick Europe to healthy America...
...Small, Too Slow? But all this private and public effort was neither fast enough nor big enough for Cap Krug and his Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman, who last week called for a doubling of the U.S.'s generating capacity in the next ten years. Chapman thought that the U.S. would be short of power for years. Private utility companies disagreed. They guessed there would soon be a surplus, unless a new demand was created. To create that demand, the Edison Electric Institute last week started a nationwide drive for all-electric kitchens...