Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though this survey and others by competent economists show the need for drastic fiscal reform, Bellotti's proposals are hardly adequate. He would "foster the tourist trade," which is a pleasant idea but certainly unequal to the crisis. He would "be on the spot in Washington" to corner for Massachusetts all possible Federal grants and programs, again a commendable proposal but one which Volpe put into practice nearly four years ago. Bellotti would establish a state Economic Research Council, a fine liberal proposal in itself, but one that sounds more like liberal cant when contrasted with his general apathy toward...
...past two years, the Lieutenant-Governor has sabotaged Governor Peabody's two attempts at tax reform. Working behind the scenes, Bellotti helped organize opposition to a proposed sales tax and to a larger and more progressive income tax. With these programs defeated, Peabody was justifiably reluctant to decrease appreciably the onerous land taxes...
Time and again throughout the Second Vatican Council, a few conservative officials of the Roman Curia have tried to block the bishops' ambitious efforts to reform and renew the Catholic Church. Time and again, the progressive-minded majority has suffered these tactics in silence and indecision. Last week, goaded by the most serious curial threat so far to the spirit of Vatican II, the bishops openly rebelled...
Volpe feels that the question of state constitutional reform, though a highly sophisticated issue, may decide the election. Having hedged for several months, the ex-Governor has finally come out strongly for House Bill 3000, which would transfer the statutory powers of the Governor's Council to the Governor. A constant hurdle to firm executive leadership, and frequently a den of corruption, the Council has drawn fire from nearly all of the state's independent political organizations. Bellotti, who several years ago advocated abolishing the Council, now says that he "could live with it." This stand may cost...
Describing Alabama voters as deluded by "false hopes and promises they will all return to cotton plantations amid sweet magnolias and honeysuckle blooms," Flowers attributed Alabama's Republican support to a mistaken belief that Goldwater would not enforce integration legislation but would "maintain and improve Democratic social reform programs...