Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Security Act, the biggest, most comprehensive, most expensive mass insurance policy ever written. Since then its purchasers, the nation's taxpayers, have had occasion to read their policy carefully and, if they have detected no outright jokers, their reaction has been such that practically every politician in the U. S. from Franklin Roosevelt down has put revision of Social Security at the top of his must list. Last week, as the House Ways & Means Committee began hearings on proposed ways & means to make the Act work better, the revisers officially got down to business...
...Politician Gandhi has usually softened the rebels' ardor by giving them big jobs in the party and then hamstringing them with trusted conservative advisers. Elected last year to the Congress presidency-with Saint Gandhi's blessing-was fiery young Subhas Chander Bose, a Bengal leader with a long record of terrorist activities. Considered at first a weakling in politics, President Bose soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials...
This speculation is contained in a slender, thoughtfully written book full of charts and tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported...
...screen, Actor Garfield, whose first name is really Jules, is undistinguished-looking, slow-spoken and, like many other prosperous young actors, an amateur left-wing politician. His present seven-year Hollywood contract contains a clause permitting him to leave on 60 days' notice whenever he wants to act on Broadway, a privilege of which he has not yet availed himself. His next picture will be Juarez, with Bette Davis and Paul Muni...
...medical politician, Dr. Sigerist has never plunged into the bitter medical battles that rage in Chicago and Washington. But as a No. 1 Medical Historian who is convinced that history spirals toward socialization, Henry Sigerist has a big intellectual influence at this time when the U. S. Government is taking socialized medicine seriously...