Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asserting that "we can no longer depend on the Supreme Court to save us from the actions of irresponsible legislatures," Howe spoke at a Liberal Union forum on the "Case of the Legless Veteran." James Kutcher, the legless veteran, who was dismissed from the Veterans Administration because of his membership in the Socialist Workers' Party was the other speaker...
...Internal Revenue asked for funds for 47 new employees to help catch up with a backlog of 50,000 letters in Baltimore, he got Mona instead. She revamped the Baltimore office's correspondence system, reduced the backlog to 3,000 letters without hiring a single new employee, and saved the Government $157,200 a year. The Sheppard system is now being adopted by all 64 district offices of the Internal Revenue Service, will ultimately save the taxpayers $5,500,000 a year...
Early this year the trustees gave up, closed down again, prepared to sell the property for demolition. But the workers staged a sit-in strike, demanding that the government take over the plant and save their jobs. Since 70% of them are Communists, they directed their appeal principally to the Communist Party. Last week none other than Mayor la Pira drove up to the old building, formally requisitioned the foundry for the city of Florence, handed the workers checks totaling $1,600 and told them to keep working. The workers thereupon chose a 26-year-old Communist among them...
Even Ch. Kippax ("Jock") Fearnought, 65 Ibs. of snuffling, bowlegged bulldog, got the kind of going-over that lavender-scented old ladies save for their lap dogs. A splendid anachronism from the days when Britons still baited bulls, 28-month-old Jock waddled into the ring without so much as a brier scratch or the toothmark of an honest alley fight on his tough red-and-white hide. Bored, and too lazy to walk a step more than necessary, he took the blue ribbon among nonsporting breeds...
...Democrats made their bid for election-year tax popularity last week by pushing a bill through the House to save every person twenty dollars in 1956. Just a few close-calculating plutocrats might object to a twenty-dollars tax cut, and then only on the ground that the nation's largest taxpayers deserve even more relief...