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But Meyner will not be easy. Constitutionally, the governor of New Jersey has more patronage and power than any other governor in the land; Meyner is generally conceded to have used his to build up a young, effective and shrewd organization. Last week, while Forbes was drubbing Dumont with a...
The 33 total is highly cheering to advocates of income-tax limitation, because the Constitution says, in Article V, that Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments" upon request of two-thirds, or 32, of the state legislatures. Nonetheless, for the foreseeable future, the prospects for a tax-ceiling...
Canadian voters, traditionally suspicious of offbeat political notions, have been content to alternate their government more or less regularly between the Conservatives, who took over after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major...
†In 1955 Truman formally accepted the honorary middle name of Swinomish, a moniker awarded him by the chief of Washington State's Swinomish Indians. himself as "electrician." Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20) Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed out his "Episcopalian" church affiliation, did not restore it until...
Other winners of the 17th annual Peabody Award: CBS's Ed Sullivan Show, TV entertainment; ABC's John Daly and his associates in political-convention coverage. TV news; CBS's You Are There, TV education; NBC's Youth Wants to Know, TV youth or children'...