Word: furse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Facing more resistance, however, is the Administration's request to extend for another year some $530 million in excise taxes that were first levied at the beginning of World War II. Led by Wisconsin's John Byrnes, the Republican members of Ways and Means sought to reduce the...
All this may slow but surely will not eliminate the flow of unlikely acquisitions. The FDIC has taken over a string of race horses that had been bought by a California banker with embezzled funds, has also held resort hotels, antiques, furs and whisky warehouses. Occasionally the agency is even...
Republicans tried to repeal the 10% excise taxes on jewelry, furs, cosmetics and luggage. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, who claims to represent "the jewelry capital of the world" (Providence is a leading manufacturer of costume jewelry), came to the G.O.P.'s aid, cried: "Let's make our...
Only frantic, eleventh-hour activity by the President-and the cooperation of Chairman Byrd-prevented the bill from emerging in a form that would have endangered its prospects of quick Senate approval. Committee Republicans were angered when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rammed through an amendment that cut some $30 million...
Pious Coup. But his greatest coup was driving the Government out of the fur business entirely. Since the turn of the century, Government posts had been trading for furs at far more generous prices than Astor was prepared to pay. With the aid of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, chairman of...