Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, unnecessary to point out that such tax evasion makes the burden of the honest motorists heavier and robs them of millions of dollars worth of roads. Fortunately, Joe Keith is doing a good job towards cleaning the mess up, but the only way that the tax dodgers can be routed is for the legislature to eliminate completely all refunds...
...spoken their minds with heat and firmness against the prospect of unpopular new taxes, for real economy (see p. 16). It was not yet mutiny, but it was the strongest evidence to date of the growing restlessness which close observers have discerned in the New Deal officers' mess for weeks (TIME. April 19), indicating that the long subservience of, Legislative to Executive which began with the "Hundred Days" of 1933 was drawing...
...that I saw no other written record of the whole transaction except the fee bill which I enclose. There was no carbon on the pad from which this was torn. I do not say that a record was not made later but I DO say that the whole mess stinks to the high heavens as a petty chiselling graft, taking advantage of men who cannot afford to pay such fines. Not so petty at that if you figure a dozen or so commercial out-of-State travellers per day. This estimate is not high as this route is the accepted...
...particular incident last week caused discontent in the officers' mess. Among Congressmen the growing suspicion that before summer's end they would be called upon to vote more taxes was disquieting. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Bob Doughton, the Administration's Congressional tax champions, were in a state of high dudgeon. Again save for a zealous minority, few of the President's Congressional followers had any real enthusiasm for the Supreme Court proposal which he had tossed to them to carry out. On that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces...
Built for the College mess hall in 1870 on the historic "Delta" but now twelve years abandoned as an eating establishment, Memorial Hall is centrally located for advanced workers in many departments...