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...Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...directions. At noon President John Lynn Driscoll strung a huge sign across the front of his First Security, promising to pay each & every depositor in full, inviting all to come and get their money. The run stopped as suddenly as it had begun. Next day Idaho's Senator Borah assured Boise that the R. F. C. would aid in reopening the two closed banks. Boise again was quiet...
...Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words, a dense cloud of words! . . . Senator Borah said it sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic position. "The difficulty under which the President labors [is] obvious," he declared, "and the reason...
...make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore. For the same journey Maryland's Goldsborough draws $16 from the public treasury, pockets $11.62. New York's Wagner collects $96 for a trip which costs ordinary citizens only $23.78. Transportation home & back costs Idaho's Borah $239.56 for which the Senate pays him $1,058.80. Ohio's Fess profits $198.42 for each session; Washington's Jones $1,074.22. Representatives enjoy the same generous allowance for travel which costs the Government a total of $226,000 for each session...
...Senator Borah importantly put forth a similar idea fortnight ago at Minneapolis. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations of Europe who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...