Word: alle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's municipal finances are in a bad way. All Philadelphia knows it; few Philadelphians seem to care. The city's gas plant is in hock to RFC. Its public libraries can afford to replace only 20,000 of 85,000 dog-eared books which are thumbed to...
In council assembled last week, the Fathers of the busted City of Brotherly Love adopted a desperate measure. They levied a flat 1½% income tax on all wages or salaries earned in the city.-Beginning next Jan. 1, everybody's paycheck may be clipped-whether they are bankers...
Said General Johnson of Mr. Roosevelt: "A third term . . . a fourth and a fifth term . . . a 15th term, and finally elect Jimmy Roosevelt and then start all over again."
"I will accept the nomination for President. I will make no effort to control any delegates. The people should decide. The candidate should be selected at primaries and convention as provided by law, and I sincerely trust that all Democrats will participate in them."
¶ Low river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer.