Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as the budget was presented to the public, some Congressmen warned that taxes heavy enough to cover the full cost of security would strangle the country's economy. Cried New York's Daniel Reed: "I think the President has gone hysterical." Some recalled the observation of North Carolina's Congressman "Muley" Doughton, when President Roosevelt in 1943 proposed a $10.5 billion increase in wartime taxes: "You can shear a sheep once a year; you can skin him only once...
When a poor crofter's son named Daniel Macmillan went to London to make his fortune, he had little more than his Scottish canniness and a strong desire to become a book publisher. In 1843, from friends and Author Charles Kingsley, he and younger brother Alexander got a little capitaland something more valuable. Kingsley wrote Westward Ho! for the new firm and got it off to a flying start. By 1896 business was good enough to set up an American firm under British-born George P. Brett and controlled by Macmillan in London. The offspring soon grew...
...Daniel Gannon, new assistant superintendent of Winthorp House, was asked to run for president by several of the members. Gannon had not yet made up his mind when he discovered that it would entail giving up his present job, and sole source of income...
university maids are complaining because a disproportionate amount of their salary is going to pay Daniel E. Mulvihill, president of the employees union, the H.U.E.R.A. A movement to vote out Mulvihill at the February 13 election meeting has begun among the members, it was learned yesterday...
...There is a man on duty ready to measure the depth at all times," said Daniel Gow, foreman of the clearance team. "Twelve to 14 men are called out to start work immediately, joined by some 50 more in the daytime. If things really get bad, we put every man in the department to work...