Word: devers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board, which is responsible for administration and expenditure of a $890, budget, has been meeting without Griscom since his term expired in October, but Governor Paul A. Dever has yet to accept the resignation...
...decree by Governor Dever freed Bert C. MacLeech 3G yesterday from a fugitive from justice charge on which he has been in jail since last May. The charge had specified that he was wanted in Tacoma, Washington for perjury alledgedly committed when he sought a confirmatory divorce there...
...bill before the State legislature providing for a change in the depreciation system and the recall of the Metropolitan District Obligation bond issue. The same bill would transfer the ownership of all transit structures (subways, elevated lines) from the various cities and towns to the MTA. In addition, Dever has proposed that the MTA, since it is now completely State owned, be relieved of all State taxes...
...Dever has offered two methods for reallocating the deficits but both have met loud protest from the groups who will have to pay. First, he wanted the State legislature to determine that the MTA lines and the subways were "highways" and, as such, were to be maintained by the receipts from gasoline and other automotive taxes. The car owners objected to this plan; they argued that persons who paid a gas tax were the least likely to use the MTA. And this program was disregarded entirely early this year, when the State Supreme Court ruled such action illegal...
...solution seems to remain--a fare increase. Though the EL consistently lost money, it never raised its fare above ten cents. In the 1948 gubernatorial election, Dever accused ex-Governor Bradford of planning to boost the fare; because of the implications that Dever could get around the deficit some other way, the present governor has now a political obligation to keep the ten cent rate...