Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hartnett stressed that no recount will be held until the final election results have been tabulated, "which will definitely not be before next Tuesday." The Young Democrats have not yet presented a recount petition, signed by ten voters from each ward, to the Commission...
Kangaroo Courts. To ward off financial chaos, Nkrumah has decreed a strict austerity program. Stiff currency controls have stifled capital outflow. Subsidies to cocoa farmers were cut by a third, and crippling new purchase taxes of from 10% to 67% were levied on imported goods from clothes to automobiles. But the taxes have only succeeded in cutting off imports; from July to September, customs duties were $3,000,000 less than expected. A new compulsory savings scheme requires wage earners making more than $28 a month to give the government 5% of their pay in exchange for government bonds; corporations...
...late Father Vincent Wilkin, S.J., Roman Catholic chaplain at England's University of Liverpool, was agonized by the problem. "There must be a solution somewhere," he wrote, and he left behind him a book, From Limbo to Heaven (Sheed & Ward; $3), in which he tried to puzzle out a solution for the dilemma of the children...
...upper reaches of U.S. business last week, it seemed to be moving day. All told, seven major corporations named new senior executives. Most drastic shift was the appointment of Robert E. Brooker, 56, as president of Montgomery Ward-a company whose top executives have been more mobile than most. In 24 years Ward has run through eight presidents; the last, Paul M. Hammaker, went out only four months ago amid stockholder yelps over poor earnings...
Parish House, 3 Church St.--ward eight, precinct four...