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...trustees hope that before this fund runs out the 20 percent amusement tax will be repealed. When this happns the cost of tickets will remain the same but the orchestra will benefit. Meanwhile the trustees pride themselves on never having to tamper with a program with an eye to the gate. Symphony Hall is always full. And at a time when orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony have folded, the Boston Symphony carries on, and manages to present three expensive summer features on top of its heavy winter schedule...
Soon after they took office, the Social Crediters tried to get started on their currency reform plans, which were to pay off $25-a-month government "dividends" to all adults. In 1937 the Dominion government stepped in, ruled that a province had no right to tamper with the banking system, and the Social Credit payoff never got out of the dream stage. When Bill Aberhart died in 1943, Social Credit's House membership had dropped...
...hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard Murray and his papers friends formed a brigade of 5,000 citizens, dubbed themselves the Squirrel Rifles. Everyone said the brigade was a joke, but it was a joke with a point. No one fooled with Alfalfa Bill. The state was born pretty much along the lines which Bill had planned...
...says he, "it doesn't belong inside a frame. It's decorative and that's all. Braque, for instance, is at his best in tapestries." Lucioni, who paints barns in a studio barn of his own, is too much awed by nature to tamper with it in his pictures: "When I'm out in the woods I have the feeling that I'm in an immense cathedral...
Hughes charges that Commission members have been instrumental in enlisting multi-million dollar, tax-exempt foundations behind attempts to tamper with freedom of the press in the United States...