Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a state responsibility, in which they have no more business than they do in cases of rape, burglary or traffic violations." The bill provided a penalty for lynch mobsters of from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually without debate, 125 to 1. The senate and Governor Beauford Jester were expected to make...
...aggressive, young (36) Governor Sidney S. McMath was having as much trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...
Said OEEC's secretary general, Robert Marjolin of France: "It would be a vain task to attempt to write a new long-term program . . . until such time as the participating countries make certain fundamental political-economic changes . . . When these adjustments are made . . . without doubt we shall again decide to project in figures this mutuality of national policies ... To do it now would be pointless labor...
...gains. Bevan says the party is like a man on a bicycle: if he stops he will fall. According to his own statement, Bevan will settle for nothing less than "total destruction" of the remnants of British capitalism, including the Conservative Party. He has estimated that completion of his program will take 25 years. Whether or not he and his party will have a chance to finish the job is still up to the people who first sent him to London. They are his judges, and they have not yet relaxed their vigilance...
France has had compulsory health insurance since 1928. It now covers 30 million, or 75% of the population, including the republic's President but not its lawyers, doctors and landowning farmers. Regional councils, elected by premium-paying workers and employers, manage the program...