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Beveridge   /bˈɛvərɪdʒ/   Listen
Beveridge

noun
1.
British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963).  Synonyms: First Baron Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge.






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"Beveridge" Quotes from Famous Books



... her a good deal while I've been watching the Senate," he said. "I'd been out there for several sessions of the General Assembly before I located there. She came in one day with a letter from some national woman's organization—wanted the Beveridge Child Labor Law endorsed, I think. Anyhow, time was of the essence of the contract, so we drew up a concurrent resolution, and she got a Republican and a Democrat to introduce it together, and it slid along on its way to Washington within forty-eight hours; she and a Mrs. Platt ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens



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