Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hornbake of Coal Center, Pa., graduated from Pennsylvania State Teachers College and received his MA and Ph.D. from Ohio State...
Harold W. Canavan, a Revere representative in the state legislature, is circulating an initiative petition to repeal the present zone system of auto insurance rates and substitute a flat rate for the whole of Massachusetts...
...little old lady sitting daily on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street is collecting signatures for Canavan's petition, which already has 13,000 of the 20,000 signatures needed by the December deadline to be put before the state legislature...
...seems that the "welfare state" would "control every human action from the womb to the tomb." Alice would doubtless remark in a thoughtful tone, "That's a great deal to make two words mean." And Alice being an unusually logical girl would think it odd that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that...
...addition federal tax laws require the payment of additional tax of 20 per cent on resale of a ticket above the original purchase price. State law prohibits the unlicensed "business" of selling rights of admission to public amusements at above 50 cents over the original cost...