Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the President was busy deciding what message he would send to Congress on War Debts, the State Department was busy telling foreign diplomats about what would constitute "default." Attorney General Cummings interpreted the Johnson Act to mean that in the past token payers were not in default, because the...
Thus in rank failure ended the first notable test of Attorney General Cummings' new policy of asking criminal indictments against all citizens, big and little, whose tax calculations disagree with those of the Government's tax auditors. Two months prior, amid a great blare of headlines, "General"'...
The Attorney General is not a law maker but last week he made what amounted to a law. Lately Congress paved the U. S. statute books with a good intention when it enacted the Johnson Law, forbidding any U. S. citizen or firm to float loans or extend new credit...
Mr. Cummings could have given half a dozen different replies making the Johnson Act into any one of half a dozen different laws. By his opinion last week the LAW became: 1) token payers (Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania) are not defaulters, therefore may receive new loans; 2...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley.