Word: decentered
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...silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success of Mr. LaGuardia, behind whom the large part of New York's civilized voters were aligned. Now he is attempting a dignified exit. But he lost a great opportunity to strike a blow for decent municipal government, and if Dr. O'Brien remains in power, New York will remember his failure...
...therefore, to the best interests of society that the members of the Legislature remember the days of their youth, and realizing that human nature has not changed, make it possible for youth to obtain decent liquor...
...Tammany candidate for Borough President of Staten Island came out for McKee. In Queens County, Tammany was faced with further desertions. When Candidate McKee awakened to the fact that rats from Boss Curry's sinking ship endangered the buoyancy of his own, he announced that "only fine, decent people" would be tolerated in the Recovery Party, that far from welcoming bolters, in many cases he was in favor of abolishing the jobs they were running...
...charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could not in conscience support the stupid, arrogant [Tammany] leadership that forces upon the city the well-intentioned but impotent figure of the present Mayor. ... As I stand before you, I owe allegiance to no political boss...
...follows: ALL OF THE NATION'S YOUNG PEOPLE OF BOTH SEXES, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 26, AS A CONTINUATION OF THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, SHALL BE INDUSTRIALLY ORGANIZED TO PRODUCE, UNDER SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION, A SUFFICIENCY OF THE NECESSARY GOODS AND SERVICES TO CONSTITUTE A DECENT LIVELIHOOD AND TO DISTRIBUTE THESE GOODS AND SERVICES WITHOUT BUYING OR SELLING THEM, TO THE ENTIRE POPULATION. The young workers would be called the Commons. After they had served their eight-year industrial conscription they would be called the Capitals. Mrs. Martin recognizes that the "gambling obsession...