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...workers had originally requested a larger retroactive pay hike and an 18-month contract...
...days that followed, the chicken-lady never failed to pounce as the bus set me down at her doorstep for the hike home. And then I had to start talking. I think she was putting together a mental list of everything money can buy--a little project to while away the time. And she figured an American should know about luxury. Most country people refused to be taken in, as they saw it, by a thin cotton dress and a limp wallet. After all, you need money to get past that ocean. I would catch this woman scrutinizing me warily...
...Alabama's George Wallace was elected Governor in 1962 standing four-square on a platform against a state sales-tax increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend...
...They feel Pixie has betrayed them: they elected her to stop busing and she couldn't do it. They're angry over the lousy education their kids are getting. They feel cheated out of their tax dollars (Phase 2B will give rise to at least a $59 tax hike this year alone...
...They feel Pixie has betrayed them: they elected her to stop busing and she couldn't do it. They're angry over the lousy education their kids are getting. They feel cheated out of their tax dollars (Phase 2B will give rise to at least a $59 tax hike this year alone...