Word: whittier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenes, Dr. Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...
...unassuming intellectual who was Brazil's Emperor -and he liked them. He sampled Cincinnati's beer, explored Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...
Senator Summer G. Whittier, a Republican member of the General Court's Education Committee, last night called the provisions of H 442 "not a healthy position to take in the country. It is unwise to destroy the liberties we already have...
When John Greenleaf Whittier wrote these lines, he believed, with most of his 19th Century fellow optimists, that mankind was slowly but surely working its way through history to a better world. Science, statecraft and scripture, they thought, were leading men together to the same goal-the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth...
...Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, which began to form around George Fox exactly 300 years ago, has done its sober best to take away the occasion for war by refusing to bear arms. "The leveled gun, the battle-brand, we may not take," wrote Quaker Poet John Greenleaf Whittier...