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...majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement or death...
...Sweeten the Pot. He had worked slowly and shrewdly. For the last eleven years his I.L.W.U. organizers had lined up Honolulu's waterfront workers, spread their grip into the sugar and pineapple fields, canneries and many other enterprises...
...little man to make himself sound bigger, of the common man to make himself uncommon. (Even in the 18th Century, small New England shopkeepers had ditched the British shop in favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid...
More honest than most Communists, he has never tried to sweeten up his down trodden Negroes. His typical story is of some accidental clash between Negroes and whites springing from the fear and misunderstanding of both people, suddenly flaring into a lynching, a riot, a murder...
Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...