Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of both the American Medical and Dental Associations testified yesterday against the health bill. Dr. Louis H. Bauer, a member of the AMA's Board of Trustees assailed the payroll tax insurance plan as "an extreme example of compulsory paternalism, "wrong in principle and impossible of practical operation...
...Square station of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's system will see one of the MTA's "new" trains. It has a coat of shining orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...
They found Harry Truman determined as ever. The trainmen's A. F. Whitney sent a wire ("When is it wrong to get a bloody nose when you are right?"), then appeared himself. In a letter, Harry Truman replied: "I am much in the same frame of mind you are . . . The compromisers got nowhere as I was sure they wouldn't, and they never had any consideration for me." This sounded like a slap at Speaker Sam Rayburn, who tried to put over the compromise. Press Secretary Charles Ross hastily explained that there had been a double misprint...
...couldn't talk when he asked me what was wrong. I was numb and sick all over. He finally made me put the babies in their beds. Then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me lightly until I could talk again. The rest of that scene wasn't very pleasant and I don't suppose either of us will ever forget it. But the important thing is that before the evening was over, we were planning to take the babies to New York to see what could be done for them...
...Booth. After that, for a while, the gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...