Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...predicted 50,000 more were on the march to Washington. Seven thousand of them paraded one evening in quiet order up Pennsylvania Avenue. The discipline at "Bonus City" continued good, despite the fears of alarmed Washingtonians who helped to spread unfounded Red scares. Crude shelters were built from old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin, and thatched with old straw. Several hundred secondhand Army tents were provided. Company streets were laid out. Latrines were dug. Regular formations were held daily. Campers were organized for field sports to keep them out of mischief. Newcomers were required to register after proving that...
...actually feel it. In the trading across the table, Utah's grey old Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leading Senate conferee outargued all five Representatives. For his side he won higher normal and surtax rates on income (TIME, June 6), tariffs on copper and lumber as well as coal and oil (TIME, May 30), excise on tires, a levy on bank checks, a cut in the stock transfer tax-all Senate items. In all, 52 disputed provisions in the big bill were compromised in the continuous 13-hour conference...
...back on a noncommittal recital of the standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde's "Missouri Compromise," be advocated? Or should a specific reform permitting State option be put forward? Out of such knotty lumber the G. O. P. plank had to be jig-sawed...
Having voted on the income tax sections of its billion-dollar revenue bill (TIME, May 30), the Senate last week continued its long wrangle over inserting tariff provisions. Oil and coal duties had been adopted. Log-rolling logic and gentlemen's agreements now necessitated doing something for lumber and copper. Nebraska's Norris tried to break in with a revival of the Export Debenture to benefit farm products, insisted that some form of farm aid must go into the bill if tariff features were being added. He was brushed aside by a vote of 46-10-23. Lumber...