Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals, and came through with banners waving. He pushed through a state FEPC, abolished the oddball cross-filing system for party primaries, organized down-to-smokestack antismog attack, raised taxes enough to trim a threatened $201 million deficit to $5,000,000, launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting...
...Democratic legislature. He got a balanced budget (but slid from a 1957 surplus of $32.3 million to a deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California-as an all-out backer of Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy...
...Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved a system of having the boys dine at his place every other night; on alternate evenings he sat with the children and their nurse while they ate at Gracie Square. All this Gloria permitted-until Stoky demanded longer summer visits and permission to take them out of the state. She refused...
Rising to his feet in the Senate last week, Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas took out after the Pentagon and its defense contractors. Said Douglas: "The system of defense procurement has led to great abuse. And when companies hire former officers to negotiate with their former fellow officers, the abuses are magnified." With that, Douglas released figures showing that 88 of the nation's 100 top contractors employed no fewer than 721 ex-officers with the rank of colonel and up. Douglas said darkly that there is grave suspicion that many of these men were hired as influence peddlers...
...estates if they died). Initially, these dividends would be small (e.g., Homer's share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only $15,586), but over the years they could conceivably build up to the point where a future president might get more than under the old bonus system. No Bethlehem executive is so optimistic as to expect bonuses to return to what were the really good old days. In 1929 President Eugene Grace set an alltime record by collecting $12,000 as salary. $1,623,753 as bonus...