Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Means insists that he is as much opposed to socialized medicine as is the A.M.A. itself (from which he resigned in protest against its assessments to finance lobbying and pressagentry against the Truman national health plan). But, he believes, the danger that government may take over all medicine increases the longer a nation waits for a solution to the problem of making the best medical care available to all its citizens, and finding ways for them to pay for it. Dr. Means holds that the clearest threat of socialized medicine in the U.S. lies in "the colossal medical activities...
...everyone was cheering in the streets. In Oklahoma City TV dealers held a mass meeting to protest the boast of station WKY-TV that it would be the first U.S. station, outside the networks, to carry color TV. The dealers complained that WKY's advertisement was misleading and would slow down the purchases of black & white TV sets. In Manhattan J. M. Smith, vice president of the Davega chain, admitted that business was generally slow and said that front-page stories about color TV had "helped kick it downstairs." Most TV manufacturers maintained a discreet and presumably busy silence...
...believed, however, that the group will probably urge alumni not to give gifts to their class drives this year, in protest of the College's handling of professors who have invoked the Fifth Amendment...
...eighteen years of advising farmers how to make their lands more valuable, the Soil Service has developed a strong esprit de corps. Working with other federal bureaus, the Service has saved so many millions of acres that its attitude on erosion control has become almost fanatical. Thus its protest was understandably loud when Secretary Benson announced his new plan which will strip the Soil Service of most of its functions, and delegate conservation control to the states...
...interpreting to foreign peoples the objectives and policies of the United States Government." and "unmasking and countering hostile attempts to distort or to frustrate the objectives and policies of the United States." ¶ Listened for 30 minutes to Elder Socialist Norman Thomas, who came to the White House to protest an assertion by Security Officer Scott McLeod that Socialists would be barred from policymaking jobs in the State Department. Reported Thomas: "I told the President ... I didn't think we had any more blabbermouths than the Republican Party. He was categorical that the civil service should not exclude Socialists...