Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will defy Boston bluenoses when it presents Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" suppressed in Boston 12 years ago, on Thursday night as part of a double bill with "The Ping-Pong Players" by Saroyan...
Without a Murmur. The CCF, which feels the standard socialist urge for state trading, thought this was wonderful. No one was surprised at that. The surprise was that men who believed in free enterprise and free trading swallowed the bill without a murmur. The only loud protest came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days...
...week's end, Buffalo's Mayor Dowd decided that he could, after all, do something about the teachers' troubles. He pledged the teachers raises of $300 to $625 (considerably less than they had asked). He would ask Albany for new taxes to pay for the bill. The teachers accepted his offer, and the school bells rang again in Buffalo...
...Republican legislature had already rushed through an emergency bill to pay New York State's 72,000 teachers a minimum salary of $2,000 a year (TIME, Jan. 20). For many an upstate rural teacher it was a sizable boost, but most city teachers were already making more...
...issuance of securities, which would finance the bulk of future loans, was still a relatively long way off. But McCloy was already busy on the practical task of selling them. Even before he publicly took over, a bill was all set to be introduced in the New York State legislature making the Bank's bonds legal investments for New York State insurance firms. As insurance firms "domiciled" in New York own 50% of all U.S. insurance assets, this would open the door, when & if the bill is passed, to one of the biggest groups of bond buyers...