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Future Program. A moderate tax reduction is possible. "But let it be remembered that tax reduction is possible solely on account of economy. Anybody can spend the money somebody else has saved." Flood control, Lakes-to-Gulf and St. Lawrence waterways, the Colorado River water & power project, the Columbia Basin, the Navy, and aviation and highways to make more intimate "our relationship with the vast territory between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn in a commercial way . . . will be some of the rewards of a judicious management of the national finances...
...Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political party which will not declare for the enforcement of the Eighteenth...
Industry. Vermont's industrial losses were some seven millions, bringing the total loss to thirty millions in a state with only 400,000 population. To rehabilitate industry, credit was the important thing, said Secretary Hoover. Let New England extend credit to Vermont, letting character supplement collateral. What Mississippi Valley bankers had done, surely the New England bankers could...
Immediately bedlam was let loose. Angry Laborites chorused: "We want Baldwin! The Prime Minister! We want a responsible Minister! We want to know what the Government is doing and the President of the Board of Trade is not the Minister to give the answer! Baldwin! Baldwin!! BALDWIN...
...shouted one member. "Do taxpayers like myself pay cash so that young women, mere chits, may go off and enjoy themselves?" Said Commissioner John Grimshaw Jr., a bachelor: "They can get married after school-hours, whether we like it or not. It would be petty business to refuse to let them take their honeymoons." His remarks carried weight; Helen C. Friedman and Marguerite B. Ellis received leaves of absence. But other members of the Board made comments. Commissioner Alexander Patterson disapproved of married women becoming teachers simply to get the money to keep a maid. John E. O'Connor...