Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile on Dec. 15 minute Finland was again the only European state to pay in full, her mite being $229.623. Again Britain chipped in the largest token...
...document which Mr. Morgenthau. adjusting his pince-nez, rose to read the committee had been prepared for him by his tax man, Professor Roswell Magill of Columbia. Mr. Morgenthau's professor generally approved the first draft of the committee's tax plan (TIME, Dec. 18). But he had some ideas of his own. Most popular was reduction of levies on earned income. Most novel proposal was to make compulsory a single joint return by man & wife. This, estimated Professor Magill, would add $40,000,000 to the U. S. income, and would put a stop to the practice...
...more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago's Sterling Cleaners: "I won't advise my clients to stand by these prices! Bring on your Federal officers! Bring on your trade commissioners...
...Washington that their enforced 40-hr. week was piling up an unsold surplus. Right back came an order which, recognizing the industry's seasonal slump, stipulated that silk stockings were to be made throughout the nation only on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The automotive industry, whose code expires Dec. 31, requested that it be extended to Sept. 1, 1934. Well pleased with NRA was the Synagogue Council of America, which voted the Administration thanks for the five-day week and "the rehabilitation of the Jewish Sabbath...
When CWTA was formed a month ago. it was to spend $550,000,000 of Federal Funds to put 4,000,000 men to work by Dec. 15. Last week CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins informed the President that the quota had been reached. President Roosevelt immediately announced that, to carry the program past Feb. 15 when the funds will expire, he would ask Congress for another $350,000,000, keep CWA going until...