Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall, the group will sift ideas it has collected and present its recommendations to the Faculty of the Law School...
...hackneyed and largely untrue, I am more than satiated with the South-is-so-sick theme. Especially from a new writer, it is disappointing that the old cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi...
...State capital in Albany with proposals for $157 million in new revenue, including a tax on legalized offtrack betting. The State--as personified by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Legislature--turned down this scheme and cut new funds down to $125 million. Wagner was thus forced last week to present what he called an "austerity" budget, still well over $2 billion...
...schools) are as good or as extensive as the civil servants who run them would like them to be. The fact is that the City (like the State and almost all other governments below the Federal level) honestly needs more money than it is getting even with the present record budget. Citizens are willing to be served by their cities and states, but unwilling to pay the cost...
...present-day terms, the story tells of a Massachusetts state senator, a Republican of rather low I.Q., whose son has driven him into debt from frequenting Lincoln Downs too often. In order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead...