Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cherub-faced Oscar Ewing, chief pitchman for Harry Truman's national health insurance plan (see MEDICINE), could not contain his enthusiasm over Britain's socialized medicine.
Pensions: To pay $100 a month to everybody over 65 would cost $12 billion a year, and raise the question "whether our economy can stand that tremendous burden without deterring industry as well as the worker." He wanted a basic Government study of pension plans.
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower last week was in Texas for a "social" visit. Before it was over, he had dined in high privacy with San Antonio's wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again...
"I Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress...
It had been 22 years since he burst into the city hall to punch the mayor of Newburyport flush on the mouth (60 days, said the judge). It had been 18 years since he talked about a formal bout of fisticuffs in Boston Garden to settle a grudge. The days...