Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revenue Act of 1936. It was not the law proposed in general terms by President Roosevelt on March 3, not the bill cavalierly passed by the House on April 29, not the bill passed after more careful examination by the Senate on June 5. It was a brand-new tax bill, concocted in conference, a cross between the House and Senate bills. Day after its birth the hybrid bill was rushed to the House floor. No copies of the conference report had been printed. All that Representatives knew of it was what oral explanations their leaders gave. So weary were...
This Sir Samuel proposed to do not by equipping the League of Nations to enforce its judgments everywhere but by setting up under Geneva auspices brand new groupings of the powers with specific local machinery to enforce peace. "Suppose, for instance," declared the First Lord, "that the continental nations of Europe could form a United States of Europe, such as that conceived by the late Aristide Briand of France a decade ago, our troubles would be mitigated! Russia would be a unit. Similarly, the United States and its American friends would be a third unit...
Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby...
...rise of Philip Morris dates from 1931, when Messrs. Ellis and McKitterick, with some friends, got control of Philip Morris and Continental Tobacco Co. When they took stock of the business, they found themselves with various pipe tobaccos, expiring luxury cigarets and the two volume brands, Paul Jones (10?) and Marlboro (20?). Marlboro had always done well, was earning dividends for the whole company. But its 500,000,000-per-year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared...
...League of Nations Covenant be separated from its basis in the Treaty of Versailles. Did Germany intend to repudiate all the remaining sections of that fat document and "any agreement which may be said to have its origin in the treaty of Versailles?" What did he mean by a brand new international court, with what powers? Why had he not included Russia, Latvia and Estonia in his proposed system of non-aggression pacts...