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Word: york (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State John Foster Dulles has refused to negotiate away U.S. strengths for Communist promises, he has been derided by the idealists as "negative" and "inflexible,'' taxed for such hard-hitting phrases as "massive retaliation and "brink of war." Last week, in a notable speech to the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan, Dulles made it clear that he is trying to steer U.S. policy toward the most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change whereby justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NO NOBLER MISSION | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...York's Nelson Rockefeller has proposed more horse racing (betting is already taxed) by means of an extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Nibbles by the Million | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Sharpest percentage rise in state spending this year is taking place in well-heeled small-population states (Iowa up 19%, Indiana up 16%, Nevada up 15%). But the sharpest pangs will be felt in such big-population states as New York, California, Michigan and Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Nibbles by the Million | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...spenders. In South Dakota, Ralph Herseth, first Democratic governor in 22 years, quickly tacked another third to the budget increase suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Nibbles by the Million | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...might be doing something which would.be pretty dangerous." Girls on the streets are a nuisance, he conceded, but he felt it was better than spreading the corruption to "part-time pimping" by cab drivers, elevator operators, hotel porters-the same sort of organized vice that "there is in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pushed off the Sidewalk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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