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...doctors who attended the American Medical Association's 100th annual convention were prepared to fix their attention on matters medical, confident that their great battle against "socialized medicine" had been won. At the outset, retiring President Elmer L. Henderson announced that the husband & wife team of Whitaker & Baxter, who have run A.M.A.'s high-powered propaganda campaign against compulsory health insurance, had finished their job. Said Surgeon Henderson: "As of now, we have defeated the efforts to socialize medicine...
Upholding for the first time the constitutionality of the 1940 Smith Act, Justice Vinson held: "An attempt to overthrow the Government by force, even though doomed from the outset because of inadequate numbers of power of the revolutionists, is a sufficient evil for the Congress to prevent...
...Goodwin was showing some of his paintings at home recently. One lady announced at the outset that she was "skeptical" of modern art. As he displayed, unabashed, a series of starkly non-objective canvases, she grew confused and silent. Then she brightened as she spotted a picture on the opposite wall: a simple drawing of a house, with a blue strip of sky at the top and a green strip of grass at the bottom. "Now that's very different," she said, relieved but yet unsure. "You have a sort of child-like style there, haven...
...seems that the sword of righteousness so handily wielded by Mr. Truman at the outset of the Korean conflict has become an umbrella...
Crimson pitcher John Donelan lasted an inning and two-thirds against the Lord Jeffs, and was in trouble from the outset. Russ Damon started the game with a walk and went to third on a single by Sam Crowe, who took second on the throw-in. Dick Dingley struck out and John McGrath walked to fill the bases. Then Howie Burnett hit down to second, Tom Cavanaugh flipped the ball to John White to force McGrath, and White threw the ball over Russ Johnson's head at first, allowing Damon and Crowe to score...