Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make up for the loss of income, the doctors pressured Congress to grant a 25-50% rise in their government wage. But when hardheaded Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin pointed out that the bill would add a billion cruzeiros yearly to the bulging budget, Café Filho vetoed...
...Manhattan, the U.S. Tax Court rendered a decision that should delight many a U.S. scholar. In a suit brought by a Guggenheim fellow who did not like the idea of paying a $178 tax on his $1,000 grant, the court ruled: such grants are not income but gifts; no tax need be paid...
...Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo. Ralph...
...political independent, campaigned for Dewey in '48 and Stevenson in '52. In his home town, the independent Toledo Blade has been grudgingly inclined to side with him: "Mr. Lamb has always seemed to us to trim his sails to suit his own advantage . . . And we will grant that one has to get up very early in the morning to get the better of him in anything. But a Communist? Bunk!" Lamb has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can prove he was directly or indirectly a Communist Party member...
...Carnegie Corporation yesterday announced it would renew for two years its grant for Visiting Fellows in General Education at the University...