Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressional Canutes or no, the tide of national debt was still mounting. In the fiscal year 1939 the U. S. spent $3,600,000,000 more than was collected in taxes. Session III of the 76th Congress will face a probable new Army appropriation of about $1,700,000,000, a new Navy appropriation of about $1,300,000,000, plus a $275,000,000 deficiency appropriation. To meet this bill for national defense, while continuing to spend many millions on relief, works, etc., the U. S. Treasury must raise new taxes, somehow, somewhere. And 1940 is an election year...
Scarcely a year out of jail, he was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson for contempt of court. Four months later, the Federal Government rose from an examination of his riches and with a straight face made the statement that Capone had illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment...
This rationalization did much to put a better face on Joe Stalin's signing up with Hitler; foreign Communists and fellow travelers were given a rebuttal to fling at those who have maintained since August that Joe is just another opportunist dictator. If he was still against everybody's government, he might still be for the amelioration of the world's masses...
...Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant." The jury: Gentiles 12, Jews...
...Woollcott, Harpo Marx, the Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like holding your face before an open drain," but Woollcott is "an entrancing companion...