Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Granite, Indiana limestone, Tennessee marble and other indigenous U. S. building materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the...
¶ Debated and passed the first Deficiency Bill carrying $75,000,000 for tax refunding. Attached was the revamped Harris amendment (see Prohibition), and the McKellar amendment providing for public hearings by a Treasury Department Committee in all tax refund cases involving more than $10,000. The Bill was returned...
"Speaking for those whom we represent, we respectfully request prompt reconsideration and earnest support of the proposed appropriation. Otherwise the questions inevitably arise. First, Does the Treasury Department sincerely desire efficient enforcement? Second, Is it unable to develop an adequate program?
So conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon recently decided that air traffic from Canada, Mexico, the West Indies and elsewhere had become so heavy that customs men must be assigned to inspect the incoming planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and...