Word: schoolless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March, he helped amass a majority among the 50 aldermen by inserting an item into the city budget...
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