Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans' fund for immediate cash, replenish the till and wipe out the deficit with corporate and personal income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment...
...brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
...Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians ought to work on all NBC shows, even when they are taped abroad. One result: Vice President Nixon turned up for the award dinner three hours before it started in order to beat the pickets to Washington's Mayflower Hotel and technically avoid crossing the line. But Nixon would have done better to avoid the whole business. The show was so dull and pompous that the cast hardly had the right to laugh at itself when Comedienne Elaine May gave a mock award to her partner Mike Nichols for ten years of "quietly...
...last week's Yale game, the three quarters' passing, and running has tightened enough to produce one of the most potent backfields in the league, while the forwards, always strong and aggresive in the lineouts, have become adept at heeling the ball to the backs. If the Crimson can avoid injuries during the contest, it could provide some extremely tough opposition for the Nomads...
Stock Control. Hoping to avoid a proxy fight, Evans and Landa persuaded Gurdon Wattles, chairman of Electric Auto-Lite Co. and a Crane director, to back them with 322,900 shares of Crane stock owned by Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share...