Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State governments work through such a bewildering variety of finance systems -mostly vintage masterpieces of political patchwork-that the U.S. Census Bureau needs about eleven months to reckon a firm figure for the actual money spent by all states in any given year. Last week Census popped up with its tally on spending by states for fiscal 1957: a record $21,084,666,000, up 12% in the same year that federal expenditures (including state-run federal-aid programs) climbed only 4%. Since fiscal 1946, when legislatures set to work on the backlogged needs for schools and roads, hundreds...
...statewide office, wasted no time on temper last winter when Republican bosses studiously ignored his early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water to the Elephant," he acknowledged after a glance over the shoulder toward plodding Lieut. Governor W. H. Nicholas, who at 65 has spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy, made up for lost time by running a handshaking "survey" of voters in all 99 counties, asking the old pros of all factions...
...first such major legislation ever introduced in Calcutta. Even this first timid gesture to clean out the bustees is opposed by the Communists. They argue that the bill favors the bustee landlords, who are to be compensated for their slum holdings, and that the money would be better spent on improving areas where there is no running water and where eight toilet seats serve 400 people. Cynically, they add that nothing will come of slum clearance anyway...
...delegates to the first General Assembly of the brand-new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 9) heard these notable recommendations: <| From 2,000 to 2,500 additional ministers should be recruited by 1970, seminary capacity must be doubled, and $25 million must be spent on new churches and seminaries within the next ten years. EUR| More proselyting energy should be expended on Jews. "We would remind our people," said a commission report, "since most Jews are such in name only, that in a spirit of true repentance for our own mistreatment of the Jew we should take...
...counselor was serious. At Horace Mann High School, a public school of about 800 in Gary, Indiana, the average pupil's load is three "solids" or academic courses. The rest of his school time is spent in study hall, physical education, or "specials" ranging from dramatics to home economics...