Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that price, within this State, to 14½?. That would exempt it from this pernicious tax schedule, your dealers would still collect the 15?, or at least 29? for 2, and some of us conscientious objectors would be spared the necessity of buying a 10? (untaxed) substitute. If this august State protested, we might appeal, and get a Supreme Court ruling-maybe even an historic 5-to-4 one, on the taxability of that ½?. Hell's Bells! as long as you don't charge it they can't tax it. Now, I mean this in dead...
...except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment. Said...
...Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored by John L. Lewis over Homer Martin, and at the U. A. W. convention last August it was only personal Lewis intervention that saved his political life within the union. But Mr. Lewis has since shifted his firm support to the Martin "Progressives...
...Last August, after 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff...
...appeal for unity of Christian sects was voiced last night by Dean Sperry in a talk in Appleton Chapel on "The World Conference on Faith and Order Held at Edinburgh in August...