Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season and tax changes that could yield the state some $5,000,000 beyond last year's take of $15 million. California expects to net nearly $42 million from racing this year, is considering a bill to take part of admissions and concession money as well. Pennsylvania and Vermont soon will set up their first pari-mutuel machines...
...Governor Robert Smylie's veto. But Smylie contends that the law violates the state constitution, so far has refused to appoint a racing commission to get things going. Some states are eying the potentially huge take of another gambling gimmick: the lottery. Among them are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and California. Most legislatures reject the notion as somehow more evil than betting on horses and dogs. They perhaps forget that all 13 U.S. colonies held lotteries that supported George Washington's Continental army, helped finance such educational institutions as Yale and Harvard...
...fireworks fizzled. After two days of committee camaraderie, Roosevelt was getting his coffee in a cup with his name on it. On the third day. Vermont's Winston Prouty, generally considered to be the Republican who was really out after Junior, got a chance to ask some questions. What did Roosevelt do with the $30.000 retainer he received when he was an attorney for Tyrant Trujillo's Dominican Republic regime seven years ago? The money went to Roosevelt's New York law firm, and F.D.R. Jr. got his share as a partner. Anyway, Junior now felt that...
...plucked by a member of the light-fingered league in the I.R.T. was Journal Editor Vermont Connecticut Royster, a Raleigh, N.C., boy despite the Yankee twang to his name. To Royster, the loss of his credit cards, shopping lists and drugstore prescriptions, not to mention $100 "secreted in the back of our wallet against such grave emergencies as running out of expense-account money in San Antonio or St. Paul." turned out to have a leaven of unexpected value. "I use all kinds of incidents that happen to me when I'm groping around for a way to make...
Morrison joined the Faculty as an instructor in 1931 after working for a time on the editorial staff of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1932 he became director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont--an office he held until 1955. He remained in charge of English A for 12 years, up to the time that course was replaced...