Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Party, Schlesinger continued, is "concerned with forward motion in our national life." Democrats, however, must be aware of "bad bosses" and "party hacks" who alienate a party's intelligent members by "causing its intellectual death...
...everybody knows, novels about the South must have a cast of tormented characters, preferably demented, a generous supply of sex, mostly illicit, and some Negroes who hang around and endure. Then, if you really want to pull out the stops, add some crafty politicians who exploit the race situation out of callous disregard for their constituents. No Place To Run has all this and more, being billed as a "tense, extraordinarily powerful novel of demagoguery and personal conflict in Mississippi...
...largest muncipality--spends more money each year than any government in the United States but the federal government and the State of California. The City's annual budget is larger than that of New York State, yet the State exercises an effective legal control over metropolitan finances; it must approve the means by which the City raises its revenue...
...past, this State power has been the source of frequent skirmishes between the traditionally Democratic City government and the usually Republican State Legislature. Any new sources of revenue that the City wishes to exploit must first be approved by the legislature; since this is an age where budgets grow bigger, not smaller, the City has had to look for expanded revenues each year. Thus, the state's control has become a very meaningful...
...balance sheet, there is much that might be questioned though very little room for change. Once the State has approved new forms of revenue, the City may choose not to use them, but it cannot employ any other taxes not approved; thus Wagner, if he wants money to spend, must raise it in the way the legislature has prescribed. About half of the additional $125 million revenue will come from fairly straightforward increases in the taxes on the gross receipts of businesses and public utilities operating in the City...