Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What fate awaits the moppet who goes joyriding across State lines in a car that does not belong...
Happy though Republicans were, they did not forget that next year holds their fate. The best they could hope for was that the moratorium would do some visible good and do it quickly. With the Depression definitely on the mend by July 1, 1932, the party could point with overt pride to the Hoover Holiday. But the Depression, despite the moratorium, might continue all year long, leaving the voters in 1932 in a disappointed, vindictive frame of mind. In that case G. O. Politicians knew that Democratic charges of "Hoover bungling" would be louder than ever...
...item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went the Canadian basic income tax from 8% to 10%! Bang-the sales tax quadrupled from i% to 4% ! Bang, bang, bang-spectacular is the exercise of a British Finance Minister's power...
...twice frustrated, last week it went into receivership. President Carl H. Henkel was appointed receiver, hopes to keep the plants running. Empire's receivership (involving $20,000,000 in assets) was the first notable one in the steel industry for some time, made steelmen hark back to the similar fate of the $21,000,000 Wickwire-Spencer steel...
Though many a city church whose land rent is high and whose congregation is small may be scrapped, Anglicans are not alarmed about the fate of the average country church, despite the Daily Mail's gloomy forecast. Britain's picturesque churches, mellowed with age, will doubtless remain in use, even though in some cases their congregations have dwindled from...