Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promises. First, the legislature would not buy his proposal to eliminate the 3% sales tax on groceries. Says John Fanning, chairman of the senate finance committee: "I saw no reason to give sales tax relief and then have to raise other taxes to make it up." Rockefeller's request for $100 million to improve secondary roads was slashed to $54 million. He further antagonized his fellow Democrats by refusing to fire thousands of Republicans holding patronage jobs. "Everyone expected a wholesale change in patronage," complains Democratic State Chairman J.C. Dillon. "That's been traditional here for generations." Rockefeller...
...Flood's involvement in the financing of a $65.1 million, 20-story addition to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. In 1975, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected the hospital's request for federal funds to build the wing. But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration. Later Flood urged the hospital to hire Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg's law firm in Philadelphia to arrange a bond issue that raised an added $39.5 million for the wing...
When students make the usual phone calls home this semester to make the usual pleas for more money, they are going to have an unusually large request...
...days, commercials might not be such a bad idea...Hmmm..."You're listening to the best in commercial radio, WBZ-FM Boston. That was Tom Carvel, from his Yonkers period, doing the classic 'Every Wednesday it's Sundae!' And now, cats and kittens, let me remind you that our request lines are open...Here's The Honorable Gov. James Longley of Maine, plugging his potatoes, on the way to the the impresario on duty assured me that...
...looks forward to greeting visitors to the Master's sherry hours; although he cannot yet remember or pronounce many names, the child recognizes faces and greets everyone with "Hi, boys! Hi, girls!" He refers to sherry hours as "potato chip time," because students like to feed him munchies on request...