Word: aid
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...right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation that would empower the commission to apply directly to federal courts for aid in enforcing subpoenas, rather than going through the Attorney General. ¶ Appointment of temporary federal registrars, empowered, on petition, to register voters for federal elections when voting rights have been denied by local officials...
Local governments are not so vexed this year about an old debate: federal aid for school construction. Eighty percent of school bonds requested this year were voted in, compared to 73% last year. But the quality of a school depends most upon the quality of its teachers, and such is the character even of devoted pedagogues that money attracts them. Last year the average classroom teacher's salary in Mississippi was $3,070; in only 13 states was it above $5,000. One out of every ten teachers quits yearly. There is no problem in wealthy Scarsdale, N.Y., which...
RATE-TEST CASE that was won by railroads will bring lower rates for freight shipments in competition against truckers. ICC precedent allowing roads to slash paint freight rates was first major test for transportation act to aid ailing railroads...
...expires on Oct. 31, they expect wage increases of11? (earlier the five operating unions demanded increases of 12-14%). But management showed that it is ready to stand as firm and united as the steelmakers against such demands. Under a group insurance plan, any railroad struck will have financial aid for as long as a year...
...Many strikers own houses, are borrowing against them instead of carving into their savings. In some steel towns, only 25% of the strikers applied for free surplus food, and only half of those bothered to pick up their allotments. But other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers; the union has no national strike war chest. Despite their handicaps, the workers are also determined to see the strike through. Said Earl Bester, boss of 22,000 strikers in the Lake Superior region...