Word: fiscales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When fiscal 1934 ends this week, final figures will show that the Federal Government has collected about $3,100,000,000 in income, excise, customs and other taxes-about $25 for every man, woman and child in the U. S. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was asked by newshawks whether he thought the huge relief expenditures in prospect would ever be paid for out of taxes. "Certainly!" he retorted, "I do not think taxes in this country are stiff. Perhaps real estate taxes are stiff, but certainly income taxes are light comparatively. This country does not know what real...
Before this fiscal favorite returned the King of Kings was asked whether it was altogether wise to send such highly placed Persians abroad for training from which they might return less Persian. "I hope,'' growled the King of Kings, ''that the men we send abroad will realize that civilization is different for every country. The Persian has a mighty tradition behind him, the Empire of Darius! I want to make out of my countrymen the best possible Persians! Ah, there is so much to do! I am always dissatisfied. I cannot do it quickly enough...
...research plant, NACA's Langley Memorial Laboratory conducts many a history-making aeronautical experiment. Created by act of Congress in 1915 "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight," NACA has 15 members who serve without compensation. Of its $900,000 general appropriation for fiscal 1933, NACA spent $600,043 for "personal services," $1,545 for "transportation of things," $960 to rent an office in Paris. Of President Wilson's original appointees, there remain only Dr. Ames and Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 75, retired chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau...
Last week the President finally found the rare man he was looking for: a fiscal adviser who satisfied him and who had no financial connections that were politically objectionable. The man was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III of Boston...
...Columbia Committee. There amid a cloud of cigar smoke five Senators and five Representatives, conferees for their respective chambers, tackled the serious business of just how far down into the pockets of 125,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. the Government should thrust its hand during the next fiscal year...