Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Tariff rolling along toward the Senate, the Watson leadership collapsed utterly. Where the President had declared for a "limited" tariff revision, Leader Watson declared for a "general" tariff revision and then, amid heckling, attempted to draw a fine distinction between "general"' revision and "unlimited revision" which he technically opposed. His argument: there would be 4,400 items in an "unlimited" tariff bill; the pending tariff bill contains only 3,000 items; ergo, it is a "general" bill...
...members of the Senate and House have been invited to call at the White House for a series of teas given by Mrs. Hoover. No names whatsoever have been omitted.'' Negro Congressman De Priest was thoroughly pleased. Said he: "I am delighted beyond measure at the fine social contacts my wife was able to make at the White House. . . . She greatly enjoyed herself and is greatly delighted." By no means everyone in Washington was delighted, however, and though the Akerson statement closed the matter so far as the Hoovers were concerned, it did not silence the capital...
...Prohibition, the most polite and popular form of U. S. lawbreaking is Beating the Customs. Prime practitioners, in the amateur field, are wealthy ladies who count it a fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
...such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...
...often that the library has occasion to start a wholly new classification, but this has been made possible this year by a gift of several hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor...