Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the growing probability that the next Congress for financial reasons will vote to free the Philippines, Secretary Hurley's mission took on large political significance. His purpose will be to collect first-hand material on which President Hoover can act if & when Congress sends an independence bill to the White House. Almost certainly this material will be in the form of a veto ammunition. The Philippines Herald, nationalist sheet, sensed this when it declared: "We would wish that the purpose of this mission be one of inquiry into the necessary details of separation. Yet it might...
...Chicago drive. Not so well satisfied was Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. In Washington he lamented: "Never before have we seen Uncle Sam with one hand trying to lock up a man for his felonies and with the other hand trying to collect a good income tax out of the fruits of his felonies. . . . To top it off, Capone pleads guilty both ways; so while Mr. Mitchell edges him up to the jail, Mr. Mellon halts him at the door to make a thrifty touch for the Capone liquor income tax. Capone...
...This "Sauerwein plan" is exactly opposite to Mr. Hoover's purpose of assistance to Germany. What M. Sauerwein proposed was a sacrifice (by the U. S. exclusively) of what is owed in War Debts by France & Allies^leaving France & Allies free to collect their full toll of German Reparations. If the "Sauerwein plan" had not come from the leading French journalistic expert on foreign affairs it would have to be labeled "willfully preposterous...
...took the Democratic National Committee a week to collect figures for a reply. Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill, as the party's respondent, pointed out that of the $6,541,000 in the 1928 Republican campaign fund, $2.580,000 was contributed by 239 rich men. Said he: "The Standard Oil's contribution was $92,500, the automobile manufacturers' $225,000, the steel magnates' $127,000, Wall Street's leading figures' $305,000. . . . Here are the names of 31 men whose contributions to elect Hoover reach the surprising figure of $698,000. . . . These...
While protesting the iniquity of Canton, Nanking agreed nevertheless to let the Southerners collect customs revenues in their area without hindrance...