Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like most if not all of my other colleagues on the Williams faculty," Williams College President James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, wrote in an article for his school's May, 1949, Alumni Review number, "I support the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact, and the furnishing of military supplies to our fellow signatories...
...Dever program for obliterating the MTA deficit in 1949 has two divisions. Six million dollars, according to his plan, can be saved yearly by refinancing the bond issues and modernizing the bookkeeping system. The remainder, some $5,000,000, must be paid off by some form of public levy...
...loud protest from the groups who will have to pay. First, he wanted the State legislature to determine that the MTA lines and the subways were "highways" and, as such, were to be maintained by the receipts from gasoline and other automotive taxes. The car owners objected to this plan; they argued that persons who paid a gas tax were the least likely to use the MTA. And this program was disregarded entirely early this year, when the State Supreme Court ruled such action illegal...
...other central arguing point was the proposed orientation section. Gilbert claimed that by the time the Register came out much of the orientation material would be dated and that freshmen could get it elsewhere anyway. The proponents of the plan felt this was a valuable and necessary extension of Register coverage from the customary names, pictures, addresses formula...
Representatives of the undergraduate clubs met with several deans Thursday to work out a substitute plan for club weekends which involved a more liberal allowance of weekends and plans for self-discipline among the clubs. One of the clauses in the alumni's plan that students objected to most loudly was the demand that parties on the Yale weekend be wholly eliminated...