Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exception was Cutting, against whom a Democratic wheelhorse, Dennis Chavez, was nominated. After Cutting beat Chavez by 1,284 votes out of 151,000, his victory was contested. Although the liberal-progressive bloc and the New Deal still continued their tacit working agreement, Cutting became the symbol of a basic flaw in that agreement. Then last fortnight, returning from New Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt had lost his outstanding liberal opponent. Day after the Cutting funeral Democratic Governor Clyde Tingley appointed Dennis Chavez to the Senate...
...raise this revenue the California Legislature has under consideration a State income tax stiffer than any other in the land. Basic schedule is 33% of the Federal rate. But severe levies on unearned increment jack up the rate in some brackets as high as the Federal tax. The "radical" Assembly, where a small bloc of EPIC legislators controls the Democratic minority, passed the tax bill recently, 70-to-5. Even though a safely conservative Senate was expected to modify the measure, Governor Merriam has come in for a prodigious amount of kicking around by the Hearst Press (whose master...
...Belle of the Nineties, at the height of last summer's Legion of Decency Campaign. Goin' to Town is the only one which deals with the contemporary scene but, aside from this detail, it is distinguished mainly by the strictness with which it adheres to the basic West formula which, as the constant element in all four of her productions, can now be isolated and defined...
With the thorough and painstaking development of scientific discovery, few basic inventions are now made, although a patent covering a slight improvement may often be of equal commercial importance...
High Chambermen, who had maintained a semblance of co-operation with the White House, pattered up & down the Chamber's corridors trying to still the storm of abuse. Henry Ingraham Harriman, outgoing president, keynoted moderately: "The chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures but to the extremes to which they are carried." Secretary of Commerce Roper rode a herd on the impatient Chambermen, trying to prevent a stampede...