Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news conference, Dwight Eisenhower said the President of the U.S. not only could but must act instantly if the safety of the country is threatened. Said he: Any President should be worse than impeached, he should be hanged, if he failed to do what was necessary to protect the people of the U.S. in an emergency...
...final Eisenhower program, submitted to Congress two weeks ago, embraces none of the Health Commission's recommendations. Instead it will protect the voluntary health insurance companies from unusual losses due to chronic or epidemic diseases--a plan similar to the government's financial safeguard for banks. Insurance companies could then afford to take on poorer risks--aged people with such ailments as rhemmatism, arthritis, tuberculosis, and heart diseases. But the program would lower rates little, leaving nearly one-half the nation unable to afford protection. And the Eisenhower plan makes no provision for increasing the flow of doctors from medical...
Tyler, tracing the history of the labor movement in politics, said that only in the last seven years have the unions become a real force on the nation's political scene. "Robert Taft persuaded labor to real action. With the Taft-Hartley Act, labor felt it had to protect itself...
...Army's report released last week (see box). Roy Cohn accepted Dave Schine's draft as a personal challenge. He enlisted McCarthy's aid in trying to get Schine a commission. When this failed, Roy personally extended the long arm of the U.S. Senate to protect Dave during his enlisted service...
Lydon said the policy has been long standing with the movie industry. "It's purpose," he added, "is to protect local movies from other competition...