Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, the ultimate causes of Christian Democrat Segni's downfall were de-stalinization and Russian brutality in Hungary. As the strength of the Italian Communist Party waned under these blows, so did the only real bond between the four center parties-the obvious need for "democratic solidarity" against Communism. Two months ago, convinced that the time had come to look out for its own interests in next year's general election, the tiny Republican Party withdrew its support from the government. The Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found...
...Washington legislature has passed a $52 million bond issue to be matched with $60 million from local communities. Though Washington officials do not think they will be able to go it alone indefinitely, most agree that federal aid is not needed now. In Connecticut, only three communities have applied for hardship grants from the state board of education, and the legislature now has a plan before it to put up at least half the cost of local construction. Mississippi, which would probably get $3 back for every dollar it paid out in taxes on any federal-aid bill, is darkly...
Holiday Edge. In Jacksonville, Joe Tanner, out under bond on a charge of shooting a man on Christmas Day, was jailed again, charged with stabbing another man on Easter...
Onetime professor of education and principal of the University of Minnesota's laboratory high school, Stout has in many ways chalked up a remarkable record in Nevada. Through appropriations and bond issues, the state now gives the university three times as much money as it did in 1952. Gifts and grants are up from an average of $100,000 a year to more than $1,000,000. While only 49% of the faculty had Ph.D.s in 1952, today 65% do. Stout upped faculty salaries 68%, started a college of education, a junior college in Las Vegas, a graduate school...
...alleged that the Joint Council Building Assn. had expended $16,718 for building payments and alterations when it "had in truth expended a substantially lesser sum." Judge George H. Boldt ordered a bench warrant issued immediately for the 63-year-old union leaders' arrest. He set bond...