Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you kindly settle a controversy pursuant to Speaker Garner's "Plea in Homespun"? (1) Is it customary for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to take the floor to deliver his opinion on an issue? (2) Has the seriousness of and widespread interest in the present movement to balance the budget given publicity to the Speaker's taking the floor which, at another time, might pass unnoticed...
...Plea in Homespun. That the House was able to finish its tax bill last week was due chiefly to a speech by Speaker Garner. He had held aloof the week before when a "soak-the-rich" coalition knocked out the Sales Tax and left the house groggy and disorganized. The Press howled its disapproval. Securities declined. Government bonds dropped. Was the House, after all. going to shirk the duty of increasing taxation sufficiently to balance the Budget? It appeared possible until Speaker Garner in his old grey suit went down into the well and began to address the House...
...plea was a simple homespun one? the Budget must be balanced: no matter what kind of taxes had to be imposed. As for the Sales Tax, he was opposed to that but he would levy it "or any other kind" to balance the Budget. His face grew red and his voice sharp as he told his colleagues that it was their ''paramount duty" to supply revenue to maintain the Government's financial integrity. If the Budget was not balanced, he warned, foreigners would withdraw their deposits from the U. S., the dollar would be driven off the gold standard, every...
...lackadaisical Roland Young emigrated from London 20 years ago. achieved his greatest stage success in Rollo's Wild Oat, a play written by his mother-in-law, Clare Kummer. In the cinema, Young is usually a chipper menace, a sleek eccentric drunkard, or a patrician foil for some more homespun leading man. In private life, he is a collector of penguins in books, pictures and statuary, which he maintains in the penguin room of his Hollywood home. Of penguins he says: "I like them because they are different. ... I am going to spend lots of time studying penguins...
Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...