Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 1, when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under which states qualify for their lion's share of this tax, Mitchell hopes to lengthen coverage to a uniform 30 weeks at half pay for the average worker who loses...
...night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson, I've got the biggest birthday present of 'em all for you; me." Last week Bill Proxmire became an Indian giver. Incensed over what he considers Johnson's highhanded conservative control of the Senate, Liberal Proxmire went into rebellion...
...forth a hardheaded proposal: the only way to save New York from death by overcrowding is to regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live in the city-compared to the 55 million who could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond...
Marks & Muddles. If Russia had any genuine interest in a compromise settlement, the Western allies had opened up one line of approach. In their recent notes to Moscow, the U.S., Britain and France had all indicated their willingness to have "advisers" from both East and West Germany present at a Big-Four conference. This was clearly a concession to Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department...
Pastora NûÑez warned that the present permits, good only for 60 days, would not be renewed for mobster-owned casinos. The hoods hope that a batch of clean front men will meet the government inspection. One of them posed Castro's dilemma neatly: "Only gamblers can run casinos-you can't get a priest or a garage mechanic." The mob was quite happy to be working with a government noted for purity. Said one operator last week: "Me, I'm glad those greedy Batista crooks got bounced...