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Health Insurance. Because the medical profession has kicked up such sand, President Roosevelt sidestepped the question of health insurance. As a sop he proposed to distribute to the States the following sums for the following purposes...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...
...which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents...
...source. They have received what have been termed Cambridge scholarships (awarded to those with honor grades) and Cambridge Aid. All but a few Cantabridgians have been under the impression (or delusion) that this money has come from the general funds of the University and is more or less a sop to the tax-exemption squabblers...
Protesting this Tory sop to the proletariat, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury snapped: "Sooner or later a return must be made to the policy of large scale public works laid down by our [Labor] Government...