Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring down Castro as the first order of business, was disappearing, and so. presumably, was Berle. In came the soft padded sell of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, just back from South America, that the struggle against Communism must be waged the long way around, building good will through development cash and the Alliance for Progress. A corollary of this policy: no direct U.S. action against Castro unless he does more to provoke...
...auto dealer who died in 1958: Alvan Tufts Fuller, better known as the Massachusetts governor who refused to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included in the Fuller estate: $80,646.94 in paychecks that he collected during his 13 years in public office and decided never to cash...
Census Bureau figures show that of the 15 million Americans aged 65 and over, 55% have cash incomes of less than $1,000, whereas 23% have $1,000 to $2,000, and 22% have $2,000 or more. The figures include social security payments but do not indicate how many oldsters are taking cash handouts from their children. HEW also finds that the over-65s use 2½ times as much hospital service as the U.S. average. Recognizing that old people indeed have a serious problem, the A.M.A. backs a law that Congress passed last year in the heat...
...State Investigations Commission opened the first round of public hearings on its 2½-year inquiry into the $100 million-a-year school building program, the smell of skulduggery was unmistakable. The former chief of the construction program said that he had accepted cameras, rare wines, steaks and cash ("in the spirit of Christmas giving"), but insisted that no one had ever tried to bribe him. An assistant supervisor was accused of charging a 5% "commission" to contractors to speed up profitable contract revisions. Two high Board of Education officials testified that they were asked to solicit political campaign contributions...
...built Calumet into the nation's dominant stable, and in 1947, when $100,000 stakes races were still a rarity, he was the first to win more than $1,000,000 in purses. "It's like running a grocery store," he said. "I love to hear that cash register ring...