Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back to the Ways & Means Committee for conference. The House refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage was taken, there remained only 24 "Nays" at Chairman Green's command. "And so," as the Congressional Record says at such times, "the bill was passed...
...communist Director Erwin Piscator. At the piece there have been no audience-riots-for Berlin playgoers are supremely tolerant-but at Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...
...Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry, For you know some day it'll get you too. And the hearse's next load may consist of-you. They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth...
Railroads. Let Congress legalize more mergers. They are needed to lower freight rates...
...Merchant Edward A. Filene of Boston recommended that passenger ships be operated as hotels, with rooms at various prices, with all decks open to all passengers, with cafeteria as well as dining-room service. This plan, he argued, would reduce operating costs for the ship owners, would permit lower fares, would stimulate tourist travel (TIME, May 18, 1925). the cabin boats have followed Merchant Filene's general plan to their owner's profit. By reducing winter fares, as Mr. Filene also suggested, the lines have gained year-round traffic. Last week the Cosulich Line, operating between New York...