Word: garner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discard. Insurance-probably paid up endowment insurance-will apparently be the main feature of the bill. The Democrats took a new angle by demanding a cash alternative. No proposal of this kind has been before Congress in two years on account of the difficulty of meeting immediate payment. Representative Garner, Democratic leader on the Committee, who had previously been opposed to every form of bonus, suddenly came out as a proponent of cash payments. The cash payment alternative was voted down in committee but it is not dead yet. It is practically certain that whatever form of bonus is finally...
...surtaxes (TiME, March 10), dallied in the Senate Finance Committee before appearing on the floor of the Upper House. What its fate will be there is uncertain. Some say the surtax rates will be lowered nearer the Mellon (25%) rates; some that they will be raised nearer the Garner (44%) rates. The latter opinion seems to be gaining. During the interval of expectation, there was last week a little comedy enacted over that section of the bill which promises a 25% flat reduction for all income tax payments made this year...
...just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when the Republican insurgents went back to their party), but at the high tide of Democratic success, Whip Oldfield assembled on the floor all but three Democratic members. One was at a funeral. Two were...
...GARNER : I yield 30 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Oldfield...
...Garner plan a gentleman from Indiana argued...