Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress which was to be the test of the new President ?Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, injected a new issue into the contest. He published a plan for tax reduction?not simply an idea, but a plan worked out in all its details (TIME, Nov. 19 et seq.). Tax reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were...
...results of the British general election (TIME, Oct. 13, et seq.) may fairly be said to have been a great surprise to all parties concerned and to the world at large. A Conservative victory had early appeared certain, but that it should have been the most crushing of any that the party has ever won, and the greatest since Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman rode into office on the tidal wave of 1906 with a majority of 356 seemed impossible...
Fighting in the Chinese civil war, which has disrupted the North for the past few months (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.) was ended. Out of chaos there began to emerge a semblance of order, but real peace seemed a mere illusion...
...TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.) continued. Strange events took place and a strange situation was created...
Mexico. The Rosalie Evans murder case (TIME, Aug. 11 et seq.) was opened at Mexico City, after a two-months delay due to difficulties in obtaining counsel for the defense...