Word: hilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will, by last year's decision of the Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively for three years. He urged a simple act (instead of a Constitutional Amendment) to end all exemptions, but not retroactively, and sent Under-Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes up Capitol Hill to argue for the change, which might bring the U. S. over $300,000,000 a year in new tax revenue...
When the Congress heard President Roosevelt's special message on Relief last fortnight, requesting an additional $875,000,000 to operate WPA from February through June 1939, some of the biggest spenders on Capitol Hill widened their eyes. That would be spending at the same rate as in June of last year, when WPA plunged in to meet Depression II, now superseded by Recovery. With whoops of economic righteousness, the House of Representatives last week fell upon the President's WPA request...
...Louis v. John Henry Lewis (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC), all-Negro heavyweight championship fight. Blow-by-blow report by Clem McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill...
Fifteen years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
...Ruppert went to work in his father's brewery, at 23 he was general manager, at 29 he succeeded his father (who retired) as president. One of the most eligible bachelors in New York, Teutonic, punctilious Jacob Ruppert, who had been appointed a colonel on Governor David B. Hill's staff, served four terms in Congress, bought a stable of race horses, raised blue-ribbon St. Bernard dogs, collected little monkeys, began to pick up choice parcels of Manhattan real estate...