Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress circle, so that customers can take their drinks on the hoof without feeling they are social outcasts. And to help pay the overhead, Mike's new place will have a private banquet room, a liquor store and a gift shop. Explained Mike grandly: "I decided to establish a Romanoff Center. I felt I was entitled to it if the Rockefellers were...
...referenda that have caused the biggest arguments are three and four. The former would lower the age at which citizens become eligible for old-age pensions from 65 to 63, and raise the monthly allowance from an average of $40 to a minimum of $75; the latter would establish a state-run lottery. The legislature voted down the lottery proposal in 1935, but in 1940 the people in 30 of the state's 40 senatorial districts voted to advise their senators to support it if it were again brought up. This year, faced with an issue that can be debated...
Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...
Clay apparently is well satisfied with the Allies' ensuing efforts to establish a free Western German state. He writes of the progress made, in the U. S. zone in particular, in inculcating a sense of freedom among the Germans, reinstating a just legal system, and reforming education. These are the areas of administration in which the Military Government was most criticized during 1945-50. Clay flicks of these criticisms glibly. This confirms an impression the book gives that it is an endorsement rather than a study of U. S. policy in action in Germany...
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO Radio) tells an occasionally moving love story of two cripples, one moral, the other physical. Gambler Joseph Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen...