Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would automatically have raised the wages of proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose-as they are sure to rise-in terms of the devalued or "Blum franc." This attempt by the Communists to exempt the proletariat, in which they have their main following, from the sacrifices other French classes are being asked to bear, brought down on Premier Blum the greatest outburst of Parliamentary wrath in months. Representatives of other classes showed not the least embarrassment in rebuking the presumptuous proletariat, and cheers greeted...
When Gene Talmadge announced for the Senate last July 4 he put forward a ten-point platform which included abolition of tax-exempt Government bonds, a Federal budget of less than $1,000,000,000 per year, 2^ postage and abolition of the Federal income tax. But beyond any such fantastic reforms, beyond his abuse of Richard B. Russell Jr. and the New Deal, Candidate Talmadge stressed in his speeches, his broadsides and his weekly sheet The Statesman ("Editor: The People; Associate Editor: Eugene Talmadge") the impressive and incontrovertible fact of his Governorship: TALMADGE KEPT HIS PROMISES...
...love one's neighbor still stands. . . . The Evangelical conscience is most heavily burdened by the fact that there are still concentration camps in Germany that describes itself as a country in which Justice is administered; and that the measures and actions of the State secret police are exempt from any judicial control. . . . Even a great cause, if it places itself in opposition to the revealed will of God, must finally bring the people to ruin. . . . He [Hitler] is vested with the dignity of the National Priest, and even of the Mediator between God and the People...
...banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly, and even now with exempt offerings like municipals and railroads, the total amount of the issue was credited to each syndicate member...
...National Labor Relations Board Securities and Exchange Commission Railroad Retirement Board Motor Carrier Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission Social Security Board Public Utility Regulation Soil Conservation Service United States Railroad Administration National Training School for Boys Certain positions in the CCC camps Rural Electrification Administration "As to the exemption from the classified service of positions of attorney by Congress, you will, of course, appreciate the fact that when Congress takes such action there is no power resting in the President to bring such positions within the competitive classified service. I have recommended to Congress approval of bills . . . which would...