Word: junes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted Weiss tooting a tin trumpet in Philadelphia in June 1936, vowing undying loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and, incidentally, plumping down 20 solid delegates' votes, they termed this incident "The Second Louisiana Purchase." (In January 1939, Weiss quietly paid the Internal Revenue Bureau $38,746.10 in back taxes and penalties for the years...
This was old-fashioned fun. The public bought and Exchange members, who in the last week in June made 66% of all short sales, scrambled to buy the shares that they had sold but did not own. Four tangible factors were credited with causing the market excitement...
...suggestion for Monday holidays (signed Geare, TIME, June 26), why not ask the National Safety Congress to estimate the number of increased accidental fatalities due to the long weekends...
Thanks for an excellently written article on Moses and Monotheism (TIME, June...
Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts...