Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last June, President Coolidge announced that he was advised there might be a Treasury deficit of 94 millions in fiscal 1929. When Congress met this month, President Coolidge announced he was now advised there might be a Treasury surplus of 37 millions in fiscal 1929. Six days later, President Coolidge announced he had been re-advised, that the Treasury had underestimated by 75 millions the amount it would have to pay in tax refunds. The Treasury was thus seen facing a deficit again...
...Steel Corp.'s claims, and claims similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...
...later the temperature rose rather abruptly to a higher level and on Dec. 12 there was evidence at the extreme right base of effusion which had commenced between the lung and diaphragm. Drainage by means of a rib resection was performed on the same day under general anaesthesia-gas, oxygen and ether...
...right of consanguinity is all on the side of Grand Duke Cyril, he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced...
They had. But later audiences dwindled and dwindled, until last week it was announced that Le Théâtre Chatelet, where Charles Lindbergh has been played, will next present...