Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
Sharp-tongued Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, barged into Rockford, Ill. last week and delivered herself of some comments on Harry Truman's new White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that...
...Nightly Except Sunday. Movies have never been popular with the churchmen of Sioux Center. An outsider wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association...
...will take to Soldiers Field turf for the Crimson are better aligned. The only question is whether Charley Roche's pulled thigh muscle will keep him on the bench, in which case John Caulfield will open in left field. Other positions are the same as against Suffolk Wednesday except for the return of Jim Kenary from football practice to tend center field for Samborski...
...popular meal contract system whereby students had the choice of eating 10, 14, or 21 meals a week in college dining halls was a war casualty which has not as yet been rehabilitated. All students except commuters are now required to sign for full board at $11.50 a week. This reduced rate, below the price of $13.65 for meals paid for individually, is made possible by the low average of attendance, only 16 meals per week. The administration argues the fairness of holding the rate down on the ground that those who eat some of their meals out, thereby lowering...