Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, after the Jackson appointment had thus been crowned with success, it became apparent that the Senate would presently have a chance to investigate another appointee, compared to whom Mr. Jackson is a hidebound Tory. As the new Solicitor General was sworn in. Attorney General Cummings announced his choice...
¶ Began debate on the new tax bill, which contains provisions for modifying capital gains and undistributed profits taxes, imposing a 20% surtax on closely held corporations whose capitalization exceeds $1,000,000, revoking the Treasury Department's right to publish lists of salaries over $15,000 a year...
¶ Heard Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Fleming Rich shout during the debate preceding passage of the $125,086,690 Interior Department Appropriation Bill: "That man [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] does not know what he is doing . . . never worked a day in his life . . . could not run any kind of business...
Several months ago U. S. disapproval of the German-American Bund twice got the organization into the headlines characteristically. First, the peaceful village of Southbury, Conn. refused to permit establishment of a Bund camp on village property. Then a midwestern Bund convention was postponed twice because of difficulty in finding...
Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence...