Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonus scheme brought a protest from some of the people eligible to collect it. The Senior Citizens' Club of Medicine Hat adopted a resolution declaring that the money could better go to widows, the handicapped and pensioners. Art Smith, Conservative member of the provincial legislature, declared: "So long as the infirm suffer financially, so long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan...
...gatherer of facts and figures, it is tireless. In 1905 it published the first comprehensive study of teachers' salaries and working conditions, was the first organization to collect national enrollment statistics in a systematic way. This week it published a report on each state's educational achievements. Among its findings: California has the most college graduates, New York the highest teacher salaries, Wisconsin the fewest dropouts...
...help the reader know the church, Author Peyrefitte mixes painstaking research with scurrilous gossip, pokes facile fun at the hairsplitting of moral theology and at the bookkeeping of indulgences. (The church, the abbé is told, no longer sells indulgences but gives them away, and his Roman associates collect them "like a crow after cherries...
...tenuous alliances and uneasy combinations, tend to be unstable. Dissention often arises within the coalition, each group adhering rigidly to its principles, unwilling to sacrifice its standards to the cause of effective government. Consequently, major problems are shelved for fear of upsetting the coalition's balance, and vital programs collect dust for lack of Cabinet cohesion...
...flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years in the game. But I don't like to have a man tell me that I could play for one club and nobody else...