Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not have been an easy situation for anyone concerned. While Sanchez worked in his second-floor office of La Fortaleza, the Governor's mansion, with Jeannette near by, his wife occupied a ground-floor office almost directly underneath, where she held court as the commonwealth's first lady. As the romance blossomed, so did Jeannette's governmental duties. Before she resigned, she not only acted as the Governor's assistant but also headed the Department of State, the protocol section, the Institute of Culture and press relations...
First, the manager pegged income from the Cambridge City Hospital at nearly $250,000 less than actual receipts. And second, he thought that income from the state would be lower than the state's estimate of last spring; instead, revenue from the Commonwealth exceeded the estimate by more than $250,000. Crane said he had cautioned the manager against both errors last year when the tax rate...
After accompanying his wife on a busy two-day visit to San Francisco, where Clare Boothe Luce gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club, Harry Luce spent a normal Saturday at their home in Phoenix. He played nine holes of golf, read the papers, attended to some business, and entertained friends at lunch and cocktails before joining a dinner party at the Arizona Biltmore...
...seems likely that the state will approve the plan, release the funds, which according to a court order would have been distributed to the Commonwealth's other cities and towns in the spring, and provide additional financial aid for the construction of new imbalance-alleviating schools. But before the School Committee accepted the plan at its Monday meeting, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, School Committee member, defender of the neighborhood school and possible candidate for mayor, got up and read a 17-page statement denouncing, the committee's plan...
Without the Common Market, as Wilson now realizes, Britain may really become a tiny island, cut off from the economic and political muscle of the Continent and thrown further into a Commonwealth that is deteriorating. Yet Wilson learned in Bonn that the job of getting in is going to be much tougher than he expected. While publicly endorsing British entry with polite correctness, the Germans do not intend to jeopardize their own relationship with De Gaulle by exerting any special pressure on Britain's behalf. Chancellor Kiesinger promised at week's end that he would outline Wilson...