Word: deverism
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...Dever program for obliterating the MTA deficit in 1949 has two divisions. Six million dollars, according to his plan, can be saved yearly by refinancing the bond issues and modernizing the bookkeeping system. The remainder, some $5,000,000, must be paid off by some form of public levy...
...State now has a very expensive orphan to care for. Somewhere money enough must be found to pay off the rapidly increasing deficit; somehow an organization must be constructed to keep the MTA on a reasonably self-sufficient basis. At the present moment this is Governor Dever's most aggravating administrative worry...
...recent hearing before Governor Dever's Commission, however, was the exact reverse of the McDowell proceedings. The board was not only impartial, but two of its members were experienced lawyers. Under the competent hand of Dean Griswold, the irrelevancies and absurdities of Dwyer's case were properly tossed out. As the hearing progressed, the position of the prosecution withered. Nothing remained at the conclusion. Dr. Van Waters was cleared; her accusers were...
...Waters then demanded a final hearing before an "impartial board" which the Governor was required by law to choose. Besides Dean Griswold, Governor Dever appointed former Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Clark, Jr., and Mrs. Roger L. Putnam...
...page report to Governor Paul A. Dever, the commission said that there was no "just cause" for Dr. Van Waters' removal, and that nine of the 27 charges against her were "trivial" and "captious...