Word: southern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional equality is a primary aim of Negro doctors. In the South, most state and county medical societies bar Negro members. Whenever the N.M.A. (4,000 members) has tried to get itself taken into the A.M.A. (140,000 members) in a bloc, as a back-door entry for Southern Negroes, it has been rebuffed...
Behind the scenes, Dr. Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
Pats & Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
Counterfire. From the Post's editorial page last week, Wechsler took dead'aim at Carter's thicket and laid down his counterfire. Said Wechsler: "If he is saying that things are bad all over and that Southern prejudice has Northern parallels, we are disposed to agree . . . [But Carter] is really suggesting that we avert our eyes from the Southland because evil things also occur up North, just as the apologists for Soviet tyranny tell us we dare not attack their slave-system until we have ended oppression in Dixie...