Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, in Roosevelt's day the correct theory of fiscal policy had not quite jelled; and even Roosevelt could not overcome his nurtured fear of debt. The Democrats, therefore, did not, as they should have, introduce an adequate policy of tax reduction in the thirties. With the New Dealers back in the saddle, we may except in the immediate future minimum expenditures consistent with broad public objectives; and no tax reduction, and possibly an increase in tax rates. This is the time of pay off debt: this country should pay off $10 billion of debt in the next year...
...objective; but the Government must also be concerned with equity. Fiscal policy in a great inflation may well call for sales taxes and heavy income taxes on the masses. Indeed, the 1948 tax bill reflected incorrect fiscal policy because it involved reduced taxes; but it may well have mirrored correct fiscal policy in that it put an increased relative burden on the masses who account for the largest part of consumption...
...latest version tells the story of Joan from start to finish-from the time she heard her heavenly voices, as a farm girl at Domremy, to her anguished death at the stake. At times the meticulous history lesson dulls the drama. The storming of Orleans is supposedly as historically correct as research could make it, down to the last split skull and link of armor; but on film it adds up to noisy and not altogether convincing movie battle. Once the picture loses sight of the fact that it is Joan's personal story, she becomes a lifeless symbol...
...evening of July 27, 1941, a skinny, sickly civilian clambered aboard a PBY Catalina at Invergordon, Scotland. His correct, grey Homburg hat bore the initials of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. The pasty-faced passenger had no official title: he was going to Moscow to see Marshal Joseph Stalin as the personal emissary of the President of the U.S. In fact, the trip was the thin man's own idea. But President Roosevelt had given Harry Hopkins his blessing, and Winston Churchill had given him his hat, when Hopkins lost...
...Vogue's contribution to democratic amity makes Emily Post look like an aborigine. Four years in the making (by a Vogue associate editor), it pronounces the last, unquestionable Word on subjects ranging from table manners and cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional seating system. Whenever egos touch . . . common sense...