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...shriek she fled, he followed and Speaker Almassy had difficulty in quieting the excited Deputies. "To be sure we all recognize her and we all recognize him," said Speaker Almassy severely, "but the fact that an actress and a lawyer* have procured gallery tickets and used them for an irregular purpose is, gentlemen, of no great moment." Of maximum moment was a speech by Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen last week, his first since he resigned as Premier (TIME...
...cold, precise Chancellor Chamberlain. He "indicated" to correspondents what he called a "tentative refusal" of Lady Houston's proffered gift. It appeared that what the impulsive Dame had actually done was to withold her due income tax payment of $151,200, offering instead her gift of $756,000. Most irregular. Not cricket...
...arrived at by crediting to Britain's Exchequer for the fiscal year 1931-32 an entire quarter of paid-up income tax which ordinarily would have been credited in the fiscal year 1932-33. In France the current budget (made to "balance" by even more irregular bookkeeping) has been publicly declared by high French fiscal authorities to be almost $150,000,000 in the red, a bookkeeping irregularity of three billion francs. Reason: the French parliamentary election next month after which Frenchmen will have to lay upon themselves such vexatious taxes as the U. S. Congress was last week inventing...
...Lines in the translation which may seem to be improperly stumbling and irregular," writes Translator Priest, "are in many cases reflections of the same characteristics in the German, a device of Goethe's to vary the metre or to suggest the momentary restlessness or confusion of spirit of the speaker...
Democratic House leaders took heart for the passage of their bill when small, lean Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, one of the most irregular and radical of their flock, uprose in its defense. Said...