Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...venomous attack on Commission Chairman William T. Bagley, Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton summed up Washington opinion this way: "The agency is one of the most screwed up in the whole Federal Government. You're working your way up the hit parade for ineptitude and inefficiency." The CFTC had the bad luck to be the first group subjected to a "sunset" law that requires new federal agencies to justify periodically their continued existence. There is some talk in Congress of letting the commission die when its charter expires Sept. 30 and giving some of its policing functions to the Securities...
...more pressure on holdouts, the National Organization for Women since February 1977 has been urging supporters to hold conventions and other meetings only in states that have approved the amendment. But the boycott has produced no new votes for the ERA and is being challenged in court by Missouri and Nevada as an illegal restraint of trade...
...miners are not totally on their own; there has been substantial sympathy for their cause. Last week about 150 Missouri farmers brought trucks filled with food to striking miners in Central City, Ky. In southern Illinois banks have generally waived miners' monthly payments for houses and automobiles as long as the strike lasts. Sears, Roebuck has suspended monthly payments on its revolving charge accounts, and finance companies are lending money to miners with no payments due until they go back to work. Grocery stores and other local businesses are extending credit...
Since spring vacation begins next week, Laura has decided that the St. Louis climate really is pleasant and there are many places there to visit. Other than the Budweiser Brewery, Bill can't think of any reason for going to Missouri...
...Utah 86, Missouri 79, 2 O.T.s...