Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention has been called to an item which appeared in your issue of April 23, with reference to Senator Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi. Knowing as little about your magazine as you do about Senator Stephens and his record, I shall make no gratuitous remarks about...
...some $10,000,000 more. Senator Couzens charged that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that the value of the stock in 1913, when the income tax first operated, should have been made the basis of Senator Couzens' profit...
Chicagoans groaned again to think they ever re-elected Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson. Chicago had had no such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
Secretary Mellon's new points were two: 1) $201,115,000 was the maximum reduction he now could recommend; 2) $182,000,000 would be the maximum reduction if Congress should appropriate $30,000,000 for flood-relief*-an item not yet budgeted. His points made, Secretary Mellon departed for Bermuda, taking his son Paul Mellon and five of Paul's undergraduate Yale classmates...