Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (April 4) is in error in stating Senator Byrnes of South Carolina "helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan." It was just the other way around. He done his little best to help pass the bill. "South Carolina's Byrnes" is noted for his subserviency to the White House and that is about all he is noted...
...Government money. Spending theoreticians like the Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate, Federal spending, according to Mr. Roosevelt, who "planned it that way," produced one fairly good business year, 1936. In 1938, more than 11,000,000 men are again out of work and industrial indices are once more in the cellar...
...wide differences in the two bills was a fundamental similarity of purpose: to lift some of the tax pressure from the point at which wealth is ventured. To many an economist this seemed the surest possible way of offering capital the fullest inducement to get busy and help itself out of the current depression. That the tax reforms crossed the Administration's three-year policy was a matter which did not seem greatly to concern Congress...
...late Huey Long took over Louisiana State University, started a $10,000,000 building program. Last month Louisiana's Governor Richard Leche invited Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Managing Editor Walter Harrison of the wealthy Oklahoman & Times to help dedicate the college's $1,200,000 Agricultural Center Coliseum. Last week, these oddly assorted dignitaries succeeded in turning the ceremonies into an interesting verbal fracas...
...also announced that two assistants, Oliver Bolton '39 and Clifford Wilson '39 will help Burwell in drawing up the long list of their class-mates who will aid during Commencement week. It is the first time that the head usher will have assistants in this task. The list of ushers will be disclosed later in the spring...