Word: junketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor for the current Sales Tax was a wealthy capitalist, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers attempted to convince their poor plain readers that such an impost was good for them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file...
Hearst's Universal Service, which arranged the sales-tax-study junket, was TIME's source for the information that Senator Gore made a speech at a state dinner in Ottawa, in the course of which he rendered Four & 20 blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial...
...picture of Senators Gore and Austin (TIME, Nov. 30) was taken during their sales-tax-inspection junket to Canada financed by William Randolph Hearst, which was the subject of that story...
...house, planted a graveyard in the front yard with names of his opponents on the tombstones. Fascinated Newburyport elected him its Mayor. He won a second term. Contrary to Newburyport tradition, he stood for election a third time last week. This time, shocked by his brawling, his publicity junket to the Pacific Coast, his high-handed method or turning the municipal administration over to his cronies, Newburyport did not vote "Lord" Andrew a single ward. Into the hands of Gayden Wells Morrill, retired shoe manufacturer, was placed wha left of the city government...
Irrepressible Mr. Thomas soon secured the Cabinet's approval for a consolation junket, to South Africa...