Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearts & Flowers. Last week the A.M.A. avoided the basic issue of equality, but wooed the N.M.A. with posies and honeyed words. The A.M.A. wanted support in its fight against President Truman's national health program (TIME...
...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...
...would get the new-fangled equipment would depend on the caravan's success and the local voting on tax rates next month. One Malvern businessman said, "If folks could see for themselves what is available for schools, it wouldn't be hard to create interest in school support...
...site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation for every county in the state"-every county, that is, that would support Springfield as the next capital...