Word: governors
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When the gas tax solution fell through, the governor proposed his second alternative--the absorption of 12 1/2 percent of the annual loss by 14 "fringe" communities that do not actually have the MTA service but whose residents frequently use the MTA system. But these towns fail to see why they should have to pay such a percentage if the rest of New England, which certainly benefits from the MTA, has to pay nothing. Besides that, the metropolitan cities and towns will still have to cover 87 1/2 percent of the losses...
...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...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, on a five-week holiday in Europe, announced to British reporters: "I have no earth-shaking announcements." But this week he talked to members of the House of Commons, off the record, about the U.S. in world affairs...
...years, Captain Kidd has put hundreds of students through such paces. One was the late General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson; another, California's Governor Earl Warren. ("An average student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings...
Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight...