Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even condemned murderers in death cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly...
With President Eurico Caspar Dutra's support, a provision was written into the 1946 constitution setting aside 1% of all national revenues for development of the valley for 20 years. Since then, Dutra's enthusiasm for the project has become almost an obsession.
"There are, however, other incidental expenses involved in education, expenses for such purposes as the transportation of children to & from school, the purchase of non-religious textbooks and the provision of health aids." The Cardinal thought that Catholic pupils were entitled to such "auxiliary services," just as they were already...
Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over...
*Since there are ample coal stocks, Lewis and his miners presumably could not be enjoined as they were last year under the "national health or safety" provision of the Taft-Hartley Act.