Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chaos. The Chamber received coldly M. Briand's ministerial declaration in behalf of his Cabinet. Since drastically increased taxation is necessary to avoid national bankruptcy, the Premier was again obliged to prescribe this bitter pill, which the Deputies have so often balked at swallowing. Since the deliberations at Geneva had fallen through, M. Briand could only express the hope that postponement would resolve that difficulty. Since the new Cabinet is merely the last Cabinet revamped, there was little else to say. With this tedious interlude over, the Deputies began again literally to tear one another's hair and rend...
...fighting investigators, Walsh and Wheeler, and others such as Reed of Missouri are absent. The most radical of the group is young LaFollette, but he is young and inexperienced in such investigations. On the whole it does not seem to be a committee of great talkers, sensational debaters or bitter prosecutors...
...resolution is passed with the Senate amendments, the most important of these is likely to be the one for a report by April 26. Congress is eager to get home and plans to adjourn in May. The debate over a definite lease seems bound to be long and bitter. So it seems likely that a definite lease of Muscle Shoals will be killed so far as this session of Congress is concerned by lack of time, unless Congress stays in Washington much later than it wishes to stay. The effect of the other Senate amendments, by possibly bringing several alternative...
...Committee report came up before the resolution. There were bitter controversies over the question whether Andrew W. Mellon and his brother R. B. Mellon control the Aluminum...
...francs to 4,985,000,000?still at least one billion short of Government requirements. As expected, the increase was obtained by grafting on the bill Finance Minister Doumer's hated "indirect taxes" (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante) although the Chamber has been refusing for weeks to down this bitter dose. As the week ended, the Senate completed its salvage work and sent the bill back to the Chamber...