Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Kennedy's most delicate problem was what to do with the liberals he had courted assiduously and yet-because of the closeness of his election-did not want to put in top posts. Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had his taste buds all set for a Cabinet job...
New York night life has none of the exoticism of the Far East, or even the Western lavishness of Las Vegas, where moderately priced sirloins and an hour of Frank Sinatra serve as loss leaders for gaming tables and one-armed bandits. New York has to make its profit in...
Died. Moe Smith, 73, who, with Partner Izzy Einstein, formed the 1920' funniest and most effective team of prohibition agents. Addicted to disguises-they posed variously as vegetable vendors, gravediggers and Democratic National Convention delegates-Izzy and Moe arrested 4,000 suspected bootleggers, confiscated an estimated 5,000,000...
The Legislature will probably neither initiate reform nor call a referendum to vote on a convention. A petition of 75,000 names would then force the question onto the ballot in 1962 and the body would meet in the summer of 1963. In the end it might give the governor...
On the other hand, the convention could give back to the Legislature its rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a...