Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precise moment that the President held the fateful slip of paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many...
...will not even meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair'? "Members of the Congress, let these challenges be met! If this is what these gentlemen want, let them say so to the Congress of the United States! Let them no longer hide their dissent in a cowardly cloak of generality! Yes, let them define the issues! We have been specific in our affirmative action. Let them be specific in their negative attack!" Shackles for Liberty. "Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate...
...which he foresaw the U. S. spending in fiscal 1934, only $6,745,000,000 was actually disposed of. Year by year afterward he overestimated the New Deal's spendings in only less conservative fashion. But with an election only ten months off this kind of conservatism no longer appeals to him. Said he last week: "The finances of the Government are in better condition than at any time in the past seven years. I say this because, starting with the autumn of 1929, tax receipts began a steady and alarming decline, while at the same time Government expenditures...
Geneva saw prospects that all 62 nations that comprise the International Red Cross would unite in an official protest. "If this keeps up," cried one League official, "the Red Cross will no longer be an emblem of mercy but an emblem of Death...
Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...