Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a shame to have airlines such as Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines cut down on their high caliber of service (which is typical of European hospitality) in order for Pan American to compete successfully with their version of typical United States hospitality (TIME, April...
...that a doctor should be on call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present system to which we object most strongly. Helen Hennessy 2G, House President...
Retreat to the Queen. Mills, in his first important test since he became Ways & Means boss last January, reckoned without another House chairman with rank as imperial and voice as loud. When the Democratic version reached the Rules Committee for processing, Virginia's cautious, wily Howard Smith took one look and decided he didn't like it. Too many votes were stacked against him for Rules Chairman Smith to pigeonhole the measure alongside other pieces of legislation that have displeased him in the past. But the bill, when the Rules Committee voted it out for consideration last week...
...repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling and by specifying coverage for 900,000 seasonal laborers, fishermen, government employees and others, who cannot now qualify for state compensation payments. The Democratic version won House Speaker Sam Rayburn's approval. And it headed for the floor under the aegis of Ways & Means Chairman Mills, who as head of a prestige-heavy committee could expect his recommendations, merit aside, to be accepted by the majority party almost without question...
...bill on which Northern Republicans and Southern conservative Democrats, disenchanted with each other since last year's civil rights fight, could come together. Smith helped round up some 60 dissident Southerners. Minority Leader Joe Martin caucused the Republicans, kept them in line behind the Eisenhower version of the bill. As debate opened at midweek, Republican strength had become so obvious that Sam Rayburn gave up the battle and ducked off to Virginia to crown Her Majesty, the queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival...