Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated that price controls were lifted too soon and that even though the Republicans emphasize "honest" government, they are spending money where quick profits can be made. Eliot finished by offering reasons why the three labor referenda should be voted down...
Both before and after the war the financial system of the Hygiene Department was examined by insurance companies, and none of them was willing to undertake a program of health insurance here at the price the University is charging. But such investigations, aimed at the reproduction by a private company of what is now done on a quasi-socialistic basis by the University, were of a basically different nature than that proposed here...
...investigation here contemplated would concern itself as much with the quality of service offered as with the amount offered and the price charged. Such an investigation, if it found ways to improve the Hygiene Department, would obviously be valuable. And if its sole result were to give the Department a clean bill of health, that too would have the valuable effect of restoring student confidence in the Hygiene Department and of stopping criticism that cannot help but undermine the morale of the Department and its patients...
...situation was a natural for someone with Progressive leanings, for the tenth distrct embraces some of the worst slums in the world (as well as the Beacon Hill and Brookline areas) and Herter's voting record has been conservative on such issues as housing and price controls. O'Brien has made no bones about tearing into his record...
...main attacks has been on the subject of price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...