Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Minority Leader Snell and Acting Chairman Crisp of the Ways & Means Committee were all powerless to stop the rowdy stampede. Weary and disheartened after a two-day drubbing, Chairman Crisp uprose to say: "I may be defeated but I'm never a quitter. I don't believe the House is in a proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days...
Ambassador Edge had more than an official interest in the embargo. He is heartily fond of greens. Objecting to the pale and bloated asperge blanche of France, he imports his own green asparagus from New Jersey. The Ambassador frequently chomps in Paris a crisp U. S. apple. Last week 500 tons of such apples, valued at $100,000, lay on the docks at Havre, kept out of the country as suspected carriers of the pernicious San José scale (TIME, March...
...they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise the necessary money...
...that question the opposition had no good answer. One group proposed a beer tax. Another favored a system of taxes on checks, legal documents, radios, luxuries, motor vehicles et al. Sales tax objectors, however, were so vociferous that Mr. Crisp decided to prepare some "perfecting amendments" which make exemptions here & there. Secretary of the Treasury Mills hurried to the Capitol, threw the solid support of the Administration behind the tax bill...
Charles Robert Crisp of Georgia, son of the late great Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House. With the reputation of being the Democratic "brains" on the committee, Congressman Crisp last week took the House floor, delivered a stirring warning to his colleagues and to the country on the tax burdens ahead: "I have burned every bridge behind me. No matter what the personal political consequences may be, I'm going to advocate levying sufficient taxes to balance the budget. It means nothing to the United States whether I remain in Congress or not but it means much...