Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, I journeyed to Tokyo just after the war with a group of newsmen, and even then we could sense the profound postwar change coming over the Japanese people. What we could not see in our limited visit we learned directly from General MacArthur, who invited us to lunch at the American embassy. The farseeing general predicted to us then-in 1946-that the Japanese traditional way of life would soon become a thing of the past. How true his prediction was, and how well TIME has shown this in its pages...
...manager of the Associated Press in Boston, and later superintendent of the A.P. in New England. He was editor and publisher of the Boston Traveler, president and publisher of the Worcester (Mass.) Post and the Manchester (N.H.) Mirror, president of the Clark Press, and publisher of the New York Evening Post. He was also second vice president of the Associated Press...
...York City...
...York City's difficult situation is further complicated by the fact that none of the services it provides (particularly the schools) are as good or as extensive as the civil servants who run them would like them to be. The fact is that the City (like the State and almost all other governments below the Federal level) honestly needs more money than it is getting even with the present record budget. Citizens are willing to be served by their cities and states, but unwilling to pay the cost...
...statesmanship than by a desire to find the form of taxation most palatable politically. Most state and local taxes are thus make-shift, time-serving devices, and as the need for expenditures grows greater, many cities and states are paying the price in financial crises like those in New York City and Michigan. Until the politicians stop trying to please everyone at once and instead institute broad tax reforms and increases (as Rockefeller has started to do in New York State), the financial situations of state and municipal governments are likely to remain precarious...