Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PEPITO, 14, valued in his gang for "heart" (courage), lives with his grandmother, who is on relief. He is on probation for shoplifting, smokes marijuana cigarettes. His world, beyond his gang's turf: comic books, gunplay movies...
...Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic Express could roar down the tracks with a highballing series of antirecession spending bills-and Republicans could grab onto the caboose as best they could. Items: ¶ The Senate shouted through a Lyndon Johnson resolution calling upon...
...hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned pessimistic New Yorkers...
...much for the skilled man who is unemployed in Detroit." More important, said McDonnell, who once argued that the best way to halt inflation in the U.S. economy was to increase taxes on incomes below $5,000, is a program of "sensible tax reforms." McDonnell wants temporary tax relief for all income groups and for corporations as well. Only then, says he, can "we increase the incentives for business risks and release to the fullest the creative energies of our people...
Campaign Promises. The Peronistas did not give Frondizi long to enjoy the feeling of relief that washed through the country once the election had run its orderly course. They noisily demanded full legality for their party, restoration of its funds, and return of all exiles-including their leader...