Word: rhode
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...country last week joined Dick Nixon in a Republican counterattack against the Democratic drive to wring political prosperity out of economic recession (TIME, Feb. 17). All week long the Democrats kept up their offensive. The governors of Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington-Democrats all-dispatched a joint telegram to President Eisenhower urging a "practical program" (i.e., plenty of federal funds) to combat "the growing national recession." On Capitol Hill, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson outlined a ten-point antirecession program that Senate Democrats were busy drafting. It called for more...
Villanova, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Universities of Rhode Island and New Hampshire also placed below the Crimson...
...Jersey s Republican Senator Clifford Case whose commuter constituents are taxed not only by New York but by Delaware and Philadelphia as well. Case introduced a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to prevent any state or local government from taxing nonresidents. His proposal also plugged by Rhode Island's Governor Dennis J. Roberts, whose constituents are taxed by Massachusetts, has very little chance. Even if it should get by the Senate Judiciary Committee, an amendment would need ratification by 36 states, and about a dozen are already taxing nonresidents...
...JOHN S. HIGGINS Bishop of Rhode Island Providence...
...Massachusetts squad compiled a 13-11 record last season and followed Rhode Island and Connecticut in Yankee Conference standings. Tonight's contest will be the team's first encounter with an Ivy League opponent in several years. The Crimson will be seeking to better last year's 19-9 record, the first successful season in decades...