Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
...Philadelphia and New York, Illinois' freshman Senator Paul Douglas invited his colleagues to inspect the slums that lie within the shadow of the Capitol. Four Senators made the first trip; seven the second. With Douglas as guide, the first group-Republicans Wayne Morse, Homer Ferguson, Raymond Baldwin and Democrat Theodore Green-set out with the air of men exploring an Arabian casbah...
Senators had wanted to know the size of the bill before buying the Atlantic pact itself. Now that the tab was face up, Congress was more relieved than alarmed. Even Georgia's closefisted Democrat Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, seemed ready to go along...
Henry A. Wallace's 1948 running mate, Idaho's singing Senator Glen H. Taylor, decided that he was a Democrat after all. With an eye on next year's Democratic primary in Idaho, Taylor piously announced: "I never felt that I left the Democratic Party. I was just like a player that M-G-M loaned to another company...
...tired of the hurly-burly of putting out a daily newspaper; she wanted to quit. Ted still had his ambition, but he seemed to have changed his politics. Dolly Thackrey got the impression that he was no longer a Wallaceite but a "liberal democrat" who would support Truman's Fair Deal program. That was assurance enough for Dolly Thackrey; they made a deal by which Ted could finally own the paper if he made a go of running it right...