Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Bone: I am a poor man, and I know of no reason why the Senate should strike from my hands the right to make a living for my family in a legitimate activity. I know of no reason why a poor man should be excluded from this body and the instrument by which he lives stricken from his hands...
Fuller (E) defeated Poor (A), by 6-1, 6-1; Dennison (E) defeated Ott (A), by 7-5, 6-2; Hutchinson (A) defeated Morril (E), by 6-4, 6-4; Thatcher (E) defeated Timkin (A), by 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Streeter (E) defeated Anderson (A), by 7-5, 6-2; Gonzalez (A) defeated Bond (E), by 6-4, 6-4; and Woodward (A) defeated Hartwell...
...land last week sounded the medical world's unceasing word war over ''socialized medicine." In Sacramento, Calif., Secretary John A. Kingsbury of Manhattan's Milbank Memorial Fund cried to the Western Hospital Association: "Our primary problem is not how to furnish financial assistance to the poor, but to enable those who cannot buy medical care as individuals to buy it as groups...
...Mayor of Eatonville he led a posse which captured a band of bank robbers. Dr. Bridge lined up the bandits, advised them to find some new line of work. Robbery, he said, was poor business. The American Medical Association, stanch foe of socialized medicine, does not consider contract practice unethical per se. Two years ago its Bureau of Medical Economics reviewed Dr. Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze...
With one notable exception the reading is good. Unfortunately, the exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...