Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health clinics, helped increase Illinois exports abroad, reduced public relief costs, firmly supported state laws to help Negroes get fairer treatment in seeking housing and jobs, knocked much administrative waste out of the State Toll Road Commission. He has notably failed to take forthright action in reforming Illinois' archaic tax system, which may yet drive the state to the edge of bankruptcy...
Infants & Idiots. With its costumed ceremony and appointed judges, its strict division between solicitors who do office business and barristers who try cases, British law combines a reputation for incorruptible justice and maddening resistance to change. As one archaic result, British laws, which have no written constitution behind them, are now so entangled in 43 volumes of parliamentary acts going back to 1235 that finding the law on a single point may require a look at 60 different acts, 99 volumes of legislative orders and 350,000 reported cases. "What sort of system of law is this?" asks London Barrister...
...distress can be traced to the second great problem facing the next Governor: governmental dishonesty. No one knows for sure the extent of corruption in Massachusetts politics. The present indictments are not tantamount to convictions. But at the very least it is obvious that the state's complex and archaic constitution has created a structure peculiarly susceptible to backroom dealings and factional quarrels. Both the truth and the legend of corruption have aggravated the fiscal crisis. Within the Department of Public Works, proven kickbacks and bribes have in the past wasted valuable tax revenue. More importantly, the image of corruption...
...indictment claimed that in 1960 Furcolo wanted to guarantee the re-appointment of his commissioner of public works, Anthony N. DiNatale. Under Massachusetts' archaic (1780) constitution, final approval for gubernatorial appointments must come from the nine-man Governor's Council, an elected board that treasures its control over some 1,000 state patronage jobs. The grand jury charged that Furcolo had conspired to pay off four council members so they would vote for DiNatale. In last week's indictment, the four council members-Democrats all -were charged with asking for and getting a bribe in a conspiracy...
...losing the gubernatorial primary in 1960, Peabody refused to support the nominee and earned the enmity of many party men. In 1962, Peabody became governor in an election where the outcome remained in doubt for several days. With this uncertain mandate, Peabody urged needed reforms of the state's archaic constitution. He proposed increased power for the governor and the abolition of the Governor's Council. In his legislative program, Peabody asked for a large income tax increase to pull the state out of a financial hole...