Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed down by the biggest Federal tax load in history, many a U.S. citizen has been looking hopefully for tax relief from the states, such as was granted by New York and South Dakota on 1941 incomes.* Last week, although New York's Governor-elect Thomas E. Dewey hinted he might make some further tax reductions, a meeting of the Tax Institute of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce sounded a note of warning against too much optimism...
...York, 30-40% in South Dakota...
...excited Navy Secretary Frank Knox, all that Franklin Roosevelt could utter was an astonished "No!" In their living rooms, on the golf courses, driving in their cars, tens of thousands of profane Americans said: "Why, the yellow bastards!" Said the Hon. Gerald Prentice Nye, senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota, about to address an America First rally in Pittsburgh: "It sounds terribly fishy...
...next night the Americans attacked once more. A task force under Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. attacked what was left of the Japanese. Lee's force included two battleships. Judging by their performance, they were probably 16-inchers of the North Carolina or improved South Dakota types. The Jap forces contained altogether four battleships. Whether the battlewagons trained guns specifically on each other was not clear this week, but it is certain that the U.S. 16-inchers did plenty of hurt to the enemy...
Montana's Burton Wheeler sniffed an Army dictatorship; California's Hiram Johnson was disturbed about the "warlike proclivities" of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; North Dakota's Gerald P. Nye shouted that Japan, after five years of war, had not yet taken young men out of schools for its Army...