Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal opinion. The New Deal is the name given to F. D. Roosevelt's political, social and economic program which has for its aim the conservation of America's human and natural resources, guided by the principle of "the greatest good to the greatest number...
...Anna A. Rosenberg, New York director of Social Security...
Last week the American Medical Association convened in San Francisco and for the first time in that professional body's 92 years the attending members (6,000) showed more interest in the business than in the science and art of medicine. Hard times for doctors and patients, changing social attitudes have caused doctors to consider new ways of distributing medical care. Traditionally, the American Medical Association, now representing 109,435 of the country's 165,163 licensed doctors, stands for decentralized administration and private initiative. The political and economic tendency of the times, however, is toward larger-scale...
...large majority of the A. M. A.'s delegates last week held firm to this tenet: that the health of all the people of this country will be protected best if: 1) each locality is permitted to adapt one of several endorsed social-economic-medical procedures to its own local needs; 2) doctors are put in charge of all governmental and corporate medical systems. Greatest desideratum to them is a medical Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet. Great fear is a nonmedical Secretary of Welfare...
...life than the changing of the Guard at London's Whitehall. But Academicians themselves, of whom Academician Anatole France said that their literary ineptitude was exceeded only by their skill in intrigue, take it with deadly seriousness. Votes are traded, sponsors courted, wires pulled, ceaseless lobbies conducted in social and political circles, usually evoking more public amusement than concern...