Word: multer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That Little Bag. The more talk there was of peanuts, the more northern big-city Democrats began to come unstuck from the 90%-for-$1.25 deal. Brooklyn Democrat Abraham Multer found himself right alongside Brooklyn Republican Francis Dorn in bewailing the high price of peanuts at Ebbets Field: "There are just about twelve peanuts in that little peanut bag for which you pay 10?" Georgia's Forrester replied: "I thought we had come to an understanding with you Brooklyn people that you would pay us 10? a bag for peanuts and we would continue...
...next morning, the Democratic household was again in order. Abraham Multer, who on the previous day had been indignant about high peanut prices, decided that he no longer felt so strongly on the subject. A change of heart was admitted by Brooklyn Democrat Victor Anfuso who, although a member of the Agriculture Committee, had said at one point in the debate: "Frankly. I couldn't tell the difference between buckwheat and cottonseed, or between cornstarch and non-fat milk powder." What Anfuso could tell the difference between was $1.25 and something less...
...possibility of hearings on the Abraham J. Multer (D.N.Y.) tax resolution virtually disappeared at the same time, however. The Council attacked the plan as "impractical and undesirable," and experts consider Council approval for proposed educational legislation necessary to passage...
Besides discouraging summer employment and increasing the temptation toward extravagance, Multer's bill wastes its largest tax benefits on wealth families. Because of the graduate income tax, a father with a $20,000 income who can easily afford to send his son to Harvard would save nearly seven hundred dollars under the Multer proposal. Yet a family whose income is $5,000 would probably have to scrape to send a son to Harvard, and would receive benefits only a fraction that large...
...bill which would cut Treasury receipts so drastically, the Multer resolution strives for its aims with remarkable waste. Any measure which is designed to case the burden of attending college must be carefully planned and presented so it will not appear to represent a costly and special privilege for the nation's students...