Word: dampen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether is left entirely to Administration discretion. Tax. A stamp tax will be placed on each sale of silver (made on or after May 15, 1934) equal to 50% of the seller's net profits. This tax will take all the joy out of silver speculation, and dampen the silver enthusiasm of speculative interests. Generality. Not in his silver bill but as part of an accompanying message to Congress, the President declared himself in favor of broadening the metallic base of U. S. money by the use of both silver and gold-but only on condition other nations joined...
...State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made an alliance with Mr. Roosevelt's political right hand, Boss Farley. That alliance continued through the Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city...
...dividing the spoils, others dreaming mainly of doing great deeds. But there comes a time in every administration when dreamers fall out. Last week that time came to the Roosevelt Administration. The fact that it was caused largely by conflicting zeal among the President's followers did not dampen the rancor it produced...
...Last week President Roosevelt held fast to his managed currency program. The Treasury upped the price of gold to $34.01. To dampen persistent tales of a rift between the Treasury and the hard-money Federal Reserve Board, Governor Eugene Black, by all odds the funniest and funniest-looking man in the Administration, showed up at Warm Springs. While his chief was paddling about the tepid swimming pool, Governor Black stood nearby, sorrowfully rattled a copy of the Atlanta Constitution which headlined the recurrent story that he was about to resign. "It isn't so much that...
...Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...