Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett's, perhaps someones else) is not uncommon. Some of we wage earning Texans view Ambassador Mellon's "Big Business War Et al," not with alarm but with interest. Politically ambitious Texans tread lightly on the subject until after the vote is counted. For, Mr. Mellon is, in part, responsible for the payment of more wages, more taxes and more commissions in Texas than any other three men in Congress. [Reference...
...exempting from its provisions only raw or unprocessed food, bread, milk, farm seeds, fertilizer, perhaps the cheapest kind of clothing. The great merit of such a tax. it was argued, was that it bore down on all industries alike. Unlike the excise taxes proposed for automobiles, phonographs, radios, telephones, et al., it did not squeeze just a few large enterprises. It also represented a nice legislative compromise between those who objected to a general retail sales tax because that would hit the people directly, and those who believed that all the people should directly bear the cost of government...
There were cheers (at last) for Russia's Foreign Minister who always used to be hissed or ignored (TIME, May 6, 1929, et seq.). Only Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Munch had the courage to drag Reparations into the Conference, and also tariffs. He flayed both as potential war causes...
...world authorities on infantile paralysis, with laboratories in Manhattan, last week issued their opinions on the epidemic which afflicted Atlantic seaboard cities last summer and autumn (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The opinions gave small comfort to parents who were glad to have that disease off their minds for a few months...
...Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would like to see a more general interest in music . . . more glee clubs...