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...evidence that at least $10,000 of the payoff had found its way to Jimmy Hoffa. Under questioning, Hoffa conceded that he got $10,000 in "loans" from the bagmen who collected from the laundrymen. but beyond that, his memory failed him. He could not recall any details about repaying the loans, nor could he produce any records to prove that he did repay them...
...bill extends unemployment benefits half again as many weeks as each state allows. It requires states to repay within four years such funds advanced by the Federal Government. But it gives the states an option to accept or decline this additional aid. What Kennedy and Douglas were after was a broader measure-mandatory for the states-that revamped basic principles of unemployment compensation by 1) requiring uniform national scales of payment and length of eligibility, and 2) extending benefits to 1,000,000 workers not now covered. Drawled Harry Byrd: "The Senator from Massachusetts is at the North Pole...
...philosophies of the Eisenhower Administration and many congressional Democrats. The Democratic proposal extended the expiration period to 24 months, beginning last June, when the recession was a pup. It provided a flat 16 weeks of federal payments, regardless of state compensation laws. It specified that the states need not repay the Federal Government. And to it, committee Democrats added a special fancy fillip: eligibility would be extended beyond the 3,400,000 workers now covered to include 900,000 seasonal workers, fishermen, government employees and the like who do not qualify for compensation under present regulations. Total estimated cost...
...functioning as the cloak for ferocious resentment and hate. (Members of the Harvard religious community who think that this element has altogether vanished from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."--Selection Eight-Four of the Hymnbook...
...Bank lends money to various countries at rates of four to six per cent, repayable in twenty years. The agency investigates each loan carefully, and requires that the loan be "bankable"; that is, that the borrower be able to repay fully in "hard currency." "Hard currencies" are those of high standing in the international market--chiefly U.S. and Canadian dollars, the pound sterling, Swiss francs and West German marks...