Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President began tax-bill conferences with Messrs. Morgenthau & Hanes about the possibility of removing tax deterrents to Business (capital stock, capital gains, undistributed-profits taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...
When President Roosevelt signed the Relief deficiency bill last month, he announced with annoyance that he would presently ask again for $150,000,000 which Congress had lopped off it. Last week he asked-but without annoyance. Before publicly putting the heat on Congress he told his press conference that he would ask only for as much as WPAdministrator Harrington found was needed. Three days later-behind closed doors in the White House-he politely asked a House subcommittee headed by Colorado's Taylor to provide the money. Not often before has Franklin Roosevelt said "Pretty please" to Congress...
...Garner and his field marshal, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, are hopeful of achieving some concrete results when the tax bill comes before Congress. For John Garner believes in ordinary U. S. business -Wall Street excepted. If the Garner bloc can repeal taxes that business objects to, it will...
...know its contents. Fanny Perkins and Messrs. Woll, Bates & Rickert, hurriedly scanning it, did not hide their feeling that John Lewis had pulled a fast one on them and on Franklin Roosevelt. When they emerged a reporter queried Mr. Lewis: "I see you've taken care of Bill Green. How about yourself...
Barked A. F. of L.'s negotiators (after telephoning Bill Green at Coshocton): ". . . The C. I. O. proposal does not offer any possible solution. . . . We are convinced that it was not even designed for serious consideration...