Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business, as represented by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, last week launched a concerted drive upon Congress to do for it that which Franklin Roosevelt has not done (see p. 67). In particular the Chamber was pointing for a helpful tax bill, which Senator Bankhead's move, if adopted, would make impossible. No such bill has yet been written or even formally discussed, but from the House last week Business received one pleasant surprise. The Ways & Means Committee, preparing to carry out the Treasury's recommended revision of the Security laws, voted not only to freeze...
...setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich., 750 families cut off relief established a "death watch'' camp in a public park, threatened to march on Flint's food warehouses...
...Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn out the New Deal in 1940. His way: eschew attacks on "the sound social objectives" of the New Deal, promise to do more for the farmers than Franklin Roosevelt has done...
...dusk came, but no Japanese bombers, the dugouts emptied. For months Chungking merchants have done their business late in the afternoon, opening shop at 4 p. m., in order to limit the danger from air raids. That night the life of the old grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas...
Surgery. Americans, says Dr. Bernheim, are "hellbent for surgery" because it is dramatic and thorough. Although there are hundreds of outstanding surgeons who never rush into an operation, "too much surgery is done." Reason: Surgery "is easy money-it comes quick and there's lots of it." While family physicians, who suggest operations, are paid very small fees, "the surgeon is the big shot-and big shots cop the coin." Too often the only money a physician gets from an operation is an unethical "cut" the surgeon hands him for bringing in a patient (fee-splitting...