Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxation, Columbia University's Roswell Magill, was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. Studies were promptly started. And then in a message to Congress last April President Roosevelt declared that there was "an immediate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure." One result of that call to action was the red-herring investigation of incorporated yachts during the battle over the Supreme Court and the subsequent plugging of a few yawning loopholes...
...Finance Ministry passed to Paul Marchandeau, Mayor of Rheims, a battle-scarred holder of the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. He is the sort of man sound men call sound. Even so, on international exchange the franc remained weak while France sat tight in the badly rocked boat of her political equilibrium. For despite every effort made by all parties concerned to conceal it, the Popular Front of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists was in a state of disintegration, and the chances of its long survival seemed slim. In his ministerial declaration Premier Chautemps frankly confessed that...
From first to last not a single roll call was taken, thus making it impossible to say officially who was there or who voted. No laws were passed, none submitted. Not even the new five-year plan was debated. As Government newsorgans put it: "There was no useless chatter. The deputies knew what to do, and they...
...Relief and low-income families are sick longer as well as more often than better-financed families. They call doctors less often. But the poor, especially in big cities, get to stay in hospitals longer than their better-off neighbors...
...pretty disillusioned pair, and did not hesitate to show it in a startling newspaper advertisement run in six cities: "Don't let anything prevent you from buying your February True Confessions. . . . If anyone should try to persuade you for any reason not to purchase the February issue . . . call our representative...