Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Pat Harrison emerged from the committeeroom rubbing his hands. "We have simply turned the bill into a revenue measure," he announced. By that he meant that it was expected to raise $464,000,000 instead of the $275,000,000 expected from the House bill...
...Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before the law that the Christmas gifts farmers have been getting do not come from Santa Claus, that processing "taxes" are but white whiskers to conceal the fact that one group of citizens are putting thieving hands into the pockets of another group...
Sanity is the gold standard. Sanity is a balanced budget. Sanity is free trade. These verities the Queen and many of her subjects consider eternal. Judged by such verities, the Great Powers have gone insane, turning sound money into unsound, unbalancing budgets meant to be balanced, and shutting out cheap goods by tariffs, with the result that their own peoples have to pay more than they otherwise would for the necessities of life...
...would not permit formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group aimed at bringing about by force any change in the political or social order of the United States." If this pledge was worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh Congress met in the former Hall of Nobles, but efforts were made to suggest that...
...will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey...