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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paragraph quoted in TIME, Jan. 14 issue, from a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from me John C. Box of Texas, of whom I've never heard, is fairly representative of the expressions of those who continue to use their efforts and influence to ''break up" the Democratic part...
...long letter Mr. Mellon presented facts which made Senator McKellar's proposal ridiculous - such as, for example, that the Board of Tax Appeals is already 20,000 cases or three years in arrears. Then after stating with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
...matter how desirable, a fundamental principle of good government and sound practice is violated." Such a philosophic dictum might almost have been taken direct from "greatest" Alexander Hamilton himself. And in enunciating it, Mr. Mellon had to employ almost Hamiltonian courage. For he laid down this principle in a letter opposing additional funds for Prohibition, thus opening himself to further attacks from the Triumphant Drys, who rightly suspect him of less than Anti-Saloon League fervor for Prohibition. He was defending the fundamental principle that public money should not be appropriated except for specific purposes. In this case...
Meanwhile, by debate, by letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of U. S. Government were attempting to fix exactly what should be spent to enforce its most famed law in fiscal 1930. The question was completely devoid of definitions but was pungently involved with politics, sentiment, vanity, religion, and a dozen characters, of which the most distinguished were the President of U. S. and the President-Elect...
Will Fyffe, who is the six point capital letter lead this week at the Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly...