Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turbulent history of 1931, or as an interpretation of the history of that period, therefore, the book deserves a place on the shelves of one who would like to consider himself well informed on current events. Particularly is the book of value as a means of bridging the gap between the actual occurrence of history-making steps in foreign relations, and the appearance of the more thoroughly digested accounts for which one must wait considerable time. With headlines succeeding one another in a rapid course of attractive, yet often superficial heights, a Hoover Moratorium, an Anschluss, the fall...
...raised by new taxes. Upping rates on estates and incomes, individual and corporate, to the 1924 level provided $450,000,000. Increased excise taxes recommended by the Treasury might bring in another $400,000,000. But there would still be left a $400,000,000 gap to fill. How? Where? Canada's lucrative sales tax seemed to be the only practical answer in sight. When the Ways & Means Committee began warming up to the idea of this levy, the Treasury asked the Dominion Government to send down George William Jones, Special Auditor of Excise Taxes in the Department...
Chief sponsor for this Constitutional amendment is Nebraska's grizzled old Senator George William Norris. His purpose (with which no disinterested person has ever disagreed) is twofold: 1) to eliminate the legislative influence of Senators & Representatives whose constituencies have already repudiated them; 2) to close the 13-month gap between an election in which voters express their sovereign will and the first meeting of a new Congress in which that will is to be executed...
...committee's desperate search for new sources of revenue to bridge this six-or-seven-hundred million dollar gap arose last week a new and striking sentiment in favor of some form...
...Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills and up past Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee meet, pushed Mr. Frank and his band. Sheriff Blair rubbed his palms, announced that Cell 13 of the Harlan County jail was happily empty, and that he would "not hesitate to fill it with New York writers...