Word: interim
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed the real fight. Said Paul Douglas, quoting from Cardinal Newman's famed hymn: "I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough...
...State Department urged that provisional local administration in North Korea should be set up by General MacArthur, should remain subject to his authority until a permanent government could be elected. The U.N. interim committee on Korea agreed with the U.S., passed a resolution requesting MacArthur to organize such civil government...
...interim tax law which raises income taxes an average of 17%, effective Oct. 1, will gather only about $2.7 billion extra over twelve months' time. Another raise next year, if twice as stiff, would probably bring in added taxes at the rate of no more than $6 billion a year. That would leave $5 billion to be gathered from broadened excise taxes, or from a federal sales tax-all of which would result in the highest levies in U.S. history. Congress might not stand for that, might decide instead to go deeper into debt (national debt today: $256 billion...
...only twice with the cast. At one point, an astute observer caught her reading from her script onstage behind a cover of Time, Altogether, it was an amazing job. Miss Collinge will not return for at least a week, but Miss Carroll will see the play nicely through the interim...
Impy's Ideas. As for the mayoralty, the bosses' choice was New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora. But rangy, smiling Vincent Impellitteri ("Impy" to tabloid headline writers), who will serve in the interim as acting mayor, had other ideas. Impellitteri wanted his temporary lease to the mayor's mansion extended for another four years...