Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognition of taxation as a national problem of the first rank came from the Government at about the same time as from the taxpayer. Early in 1937 a famed authority on 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...
...Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught...
...prosperous Dr. John A. Reed of Maysville, Ky., Stanley Reed had a thorough education at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Yale University, studied law at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris. His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army. At the behest not of Franklin Roosevelt but of Herbert Hoover he left his comfortable law practice in Maysville to go to Washington in 1929 as attorney for the Federal Farm Board...
Center's Merle Crowell, NBC's Vice President Frank Earl Mason, Yale's Professor James Harvey Rogers, Columbia University's Professors Robert Staughton Lynd, Lyman Bryson, Joseph Daniel McGoldrick, Clyde. Raymond Miller. Back & forth across the council table flies weighty talk of big U. S. problems about which the public forms opinions-Capital & Labor, the New Deal, John L. Lewis, Education. This small group might easily be the seat of a sinister super-government were it not that no two members of the Council on Public Opinion completely agree on anything very important...
...this drug is to step up the pulse rate, increase the flow of blood in the coronary arteries that serve the heart itself, stimulate the thinking areas of the brain, constrict the blood vessels. In a recent paper abstracted last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Robert Louis Levy of Columbia University declared that in certain high-strung individuals under mental or emotional stress, coffee may cause heart pains...