Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wherein States would levy income taxes against the salaries of Federal employes. John Hanes's understanding of the scarcity and paucity of new tax avenues, and of the woes of taxpayers-for whom he often personally holds court-makes him a darling of the Garner-Harrison economy bloc in the new Congress, a group which had no love for Mr. Oliphant. He should be able to wheedle more revenue-raising taxes from them than any social experimenter...
...Secretary Lord Halifax who, when they go to Italy this month, are reported planning to visit the Pope and to entertain the Cardinals at the British legation in Vatican City. They know, as does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps in Europe. As Franklin Roosevelt well knows, in Washington hard by the British Embassy, a palatial...
...formidable did the Garner economy bloc appear last week that alert little David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) sounded an alarm, called for "the angry voice of the people" to halt "the reckless plans of Garner and his clique...
...thing they have most in common is their resolve not to give any of it back. They also are resolved not to be the puppets they once were. There is safety in numbers, and they believe in fighting shy of exclusive totalitarian economic alliances. This new, independent European bloc is the best hope Paul has of turning over to King Peter, three years hence, the helm of State of which he has been the able and conscientious trustee...
...illustrated in Memphis. There the negotiations between the city power commission and National Power & Light Co. for the city's purchase of Memphis Power & Light Co., for which Mayor Watkins Overton has offered $13,500,000, were taken out of the mayor's hands by an intransigent bloc of commissioners steered by Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Unless M. P. & L. cut its price for the electric system and agreed to cut gas rates as well, ultimatumed Boss Crump's men, "we are going to build...