Word: ditherings
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
...announcement. 3) A suggestion (as coming from President Roosevelt) that the corporations and large landowners might legally be compelled to release a part of their holdings to the farmers for the planting of food crops. This last sensational item of its New Deal threw Puerto Rico into a dither of excitement...
Unintentionally John Pierpont Morgan & Partners did the U. S. Government a good turn by paying no income tax in 1931 and 1932. Disclosure of their non-taxability before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (see p. 51) started not only a hot dither of excitement in the Press (see p. 38). but also a tax reform movement by a startled Congress. Plugging the leak in the law promised to net the Treasury millions of dollars of additional revenue, spread the burden of Federal taxation more evenly over the land...