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...angered the State Board of Social Welfare, which reimburses Newburgh for 33% of its relief costs. A special investigating committee protested that at least two provisions-the three-month cutoff, and the discrimination against unwed mothers-violated both state and federal standards, warned that the Federal Government might withhold as much as $200 million in annual welfare payments to New York State if Newburgh put its new code into effect. The board also questioned whether Newburgh was as badly off as Manager Mitchell claimed. The city's welfare costs, according to state figures, were lower than those of comparable...
...kept. For eager parents, over-worked teachers, curious friends, even for the student himself, these grades are the measure of his success--and in senior year, the record is sent off to fellowship committees and prospective employers. According to its authoritative testimony, parents praise or scold, committees grant or withhold, so that even if grades served only as a report to others, the record would have to be taken seriously. Of course, it means more, for most students depend upon grades as the tangible evidence of their own achievement...
...state ruled by Governor Ross Barnett, who had once declared: "The Negro is different because God made him different to punish him." Barnett, noting well what had happened in Alabama, assured Attorney General Kennedy that Mississippi would protect the students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., was starting out for the South. Cracked Harvardman Kennedy: "Those people at Yale are sore at Harvard for taking over the country, and now they...
...Howe emphasized last night, however, none of these objections came up during the fall of 1959 when Willard Uphaus spoke on the right of the individual to withhold information from the government. Uphaus was at that time awaiting sentence for contempt of court, and faced possible imprisonment for refusing to turn over World Fellowship guest lists to the New Hampshire attorney general...
President Kennedy hasn't admitted ," continued Hughes, "and until we have to withhold our from him." Earlier he deplored "McCarthy legacy" of not debating great public issues, of "keeping our shut...