Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...items in the village's new budget, such as the library's request for $91,000 (cut by nearly one-third) and the building commissioner's request for a $2,500 car (cut to $1,800). Explained President Jack Mabley, who makes his living as a Chicago Daily News columnist: "There's a feeling of frustration and desperation among the taxpayers I meet, and this is one small way of doing something about...
...consumer spending for new cars, power boats and vacation-bound plane trips, was an almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people...
...time the play takes place. This is December 31, 1899. "The last day of Alison's century," as one of the characters helpfully points out. The Stanhope family is leaving its old home on the banks of the Mississippi for a new one in the city. A reporter from Chicago comes down to see the room in which Alison worked, and off we go. Old Aunt Agatha, Alison's constant companion, now grown senile, tries unsuccessfully to burn down the house. Elsa Stanhope who, years before, ran off with a married man, returns to spend one final night...
This is his fourth consecutive summer teaching at the Harvard Summer School. He has also taught at Chicago, University of North Carolina, New York University, Princeton, and has taught regularly at the University of Minnesota since...
...Raisin in the Sun. An impressive first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family...