Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
Thomas Eakins was a realistic painter, Albert Pinkham Ryder a romantic one. But they had a good deal of history in common. Both were born about the time the U. S. fought Mexico, died just before it entered World War I. Neither was popular in his lifetime, though each had tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view...
...until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven't got any of it. If I don't get a hit each year I am in a damned...