Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then A.M.A.'s rulers voted to assess each of its 140,000 members $25, the first such levy in the organization's 100 years. The $3,500,000 would be spent on a campaign of "education" to tell people the advantages of the "American system" of medical care. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing says that the "education" will be A.M.A. "lobbying" against Government health insurance...
...real meeting ground of the ideas and trends that indicate the shape of tomorrow's Europe and, perhaps, of the world. As for our part in it, mostly it is a job of probing and explaining, trying to get at the facts behind the loose statements, to assess the trends correctly as they first manifest themselves...
Radcliffe's 900 undergraduates are nearing a vote on one of the year's most controversial issues on Garden Street. A mass meeting Thursday will decide yes or no on a proposal for a compulsory Student Activities fee which would assess every student $12 annually to cover nearly all her costs through the year for non-academic Radcliffe activities...
...asked how much she was prepared to give before Europe declared how much she needed. The representative of the world's first planned state came out flatly against any international planning, because it would constitute "interference with other nations' internal affairs." He demanded that each European nation assess its own national needs, and then forward the bill...
...down what the U.S. could and should do, Harry Truman this week created three committees: 1) a Government committee under Interior Secretary Krug to tabulate national resources, 2) another Government committee to assess the effect on the U.S. economy of aid to others, and 3) a nonpartisan committee of 19 citizens to make foreign aid recommendations to the White House in the light of the facts...