Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President pictured to the subsistence homesteaders a stock profit of $5,000 which he or they had made over more than two years. Ranging it alongside a $500,000 stock profit made by some other man, he told them that the new tax law would require the $500,000 man "to pay a tax of only 15%. just as you and I would. . . . Nobody, by any stretch of the imagination, can say that this new provision maintains the principle of payment in proportion to ability...
...mind of the American business man," said Senator Harrison, but the President's speech made it sound like "a monstrous tax bill," designed to let big taxpayers escape; on the contrary the first thing the bill did was positive-it erased the inequity of the old tax law by letting small businesses pay debts and meet deficits before levying on their undistributed profits, and by exempting all businesses earning less than...
When Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married her cousin Franklin 33 years ago, her mother-in-law gave her a 17-strand Tiffany dog-collar of pearls which made her feel "decked out beyond description." At festive functions for 25 years she wore them around her long, graceful throat. When her children began marrying, she began cutting down her collar pearls, row by row. First she gave James's bride a string of them, in 1930. Then Elliott's two brides, then Franklin Jr.'s. Last week she sent a string to John's fiancee, Anne Lindsay Clark...
Recently someone wrapped a length of iron pipe in a newspaper and with it slugged Ben Kohn. Slugged also were various other Browningites. Last week, Governor Browning posted $250 reward for Ben Kohn's slugger's apprehension. At the same time he invoked a forgotten law of 1919 empowering him to appoint up to 600 State police...
...Government meeting, concentrators pointed out that the only course in the history of any phase of government is Dean Pound's, which appears most valuable for future Law School men. Yet one cannot study government without at the same time studying history; thus, a course in American party government must include the historical background of the parties and of the pressure groups influencing them...