Word: mr
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Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
...Mr. Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...
...definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters over with British statesmen. M. le President and His Majesty King George VI also toasted each other's peoples heartily at a banquet at Buckingham Palace...
...appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...Health Walter Elliot, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, were for no more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel...