Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your magazine costs 15?. A 15? item, in this State, has a sales tax added to the price, so TIME costs Californians 16?. Now, I want you to change that price, within this State, to 14½?. That would exempt it from this pernicious tax schedule, your dealers would still collect the 15?, or at least 29? for 2, and some of us conscientious objectors would be spared the necessity of buying a 10? (untaxed) substitute. If this august State protested, we might appeal, and get a Supreme Court ruling-maybe even an historic...
...entirely confident of his position as a great musician, he is very appreciative of appreciation, collects, reads and rereads every small item that is written about him in the most provincial newspapers. On the subject of his interpreters he is diplomatic, has indiscriminately praised Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham, Werner Janssen and his countryman Robert Kajanus. He has a comforting motto: "Better have it played badly or wrong than...
...Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith still sweating to get the farm bill out of committee, the calendar wide open. Senator Smith's junior colleague, Jimmy Byrnes, tried to stave off the inevitable by arguing that in default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth...
...down to four items when he omitted modernized anti-trust legislation in his opening message, the President's program called for legislation on: 1) crop control, 2) wages & hours, 3) reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, 4) Regional Planning. Last week this program, with one exception, remained approximately where it was before the Session convened. The exception was Item...
...Grona blacks were officially presented as Art. In the pit an all-Negro "symphony" orchestra, sporting a single saxophone as a concession to racial idiom, played lukewarm jazz, the Star-Spangled Banner and Bach's Air for the G String. The evening's most pretentious item, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, was played on a phonograph...