Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastman Dissent. Such a lax attitude by a majority of the I. C. C. produced a stinging dissent from the merger plan by Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman. As the "radical" member of the Commission, Mr. Eastman delivered a long economic treatise in which he declared...
...practically universal respect. Utterly conscientious in administering his job, he is incapable of political ballplaying. Many a manufacturer school director or transport operator has learned that "The Chief" may submit to being called by his first name, but is quick to meet each & every request for an easy or lax interpretation of Government rules with: "The Air Commerce Act says...
...with the principals cooped up on the Alton, the Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned...
Since 1889 a Single Tax Club has existed in Manhattan, once had for president Samuel Seabury. Pittsburgh and Scranton have approached the essence of the single lax by decreasing the tax on improve ments, increasing the tax on land until they share equally in costs. In large parts of the Canadian Northwest no improve ments on farm property are taxed. Sydney, Australia operates on a single tax basis...
Observed pungent Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer: "To ask a British Socialist Government to ... put its funds into solvency is like asking a fish to climb a hill. That is not what he is for; he is not made that way. . . . Lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole . . . is good electioneering...