Word: governors
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...Governor Foster Furcolo has proposed a more sweeping solution: imposition of a limited sales tax throughout the state. Receipts from this three per cent levy would be redistributed to the cities and towns of the commonwealth. In an effort to win Boston support for his proposal, Furcolo developed his program of redistribution so that the city would receive more than a generous share. It was said that such an indirect subsidy to Boston could cut the real estate levy--now $101.20--by as much as $20, a considerable improvement if possible...
Despite the obvious attraction of Furcolo's proposal for Boston members of the legislature, Powers bitterly attacked the sales tax idea, and threw his 28 years of political savvy into the fight. It was not passed. And when the Governor tried several times to revive his proposal, Powers' opposition and the natural reluctance of other congressmen to impose new taxes killed...
With 122 votes to Nixon's 29, Governor Rockefeller swamped the vice-President in a contest among GOP candidates alone...
Mental Wrestling. As Governor Rockefeller explained it to newsmen last week in Albany, he had devoted himself "with tremendous intensity" to establishing his nine-month-old administration, and it was "running very smoothly." He was at last able to accept a few of the 3,300 speaking bids he had received. "I am not going on this trip as a candidate," said he. He would talk about "national and international" issues. "I have had for a great many years close ties and very basic concern in these problems." Mainly, he wants to "exchange ideas with others, get their reactions...
...sales to white farmers on racial grounds. And if it chose, the government could almost certainly push its new plan for the Highlands through Kenya's Legislative Council. But in the process, it might well increase rather than diminish the tension between Kenya's races. Departing Kenya Governor Sir Evelyn Baring, mused the London Times, had handed to his successor, Sir Patrick Renison, "a baton . . . that looks suspiciously like a stick of dynamite...