Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan for Christmas shopping, Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne-ex quintuplets-went to see a musical comedy Too Many Girls...
...Mr. Burton-Baldry laid side by side various British positions of 1914 and 1939, with the following results...
...plan had a particular appeal as a price-keeper-downer since it would lock up money that would otherwise be spent. To keep down the price of consumer goods, to temper the war inflation for those who do not enjoy its upward effect on wages and speculative profits, Mr. Keynes proposed a double levy on all incomes, one part to consist of tax, the other of low-interest (2½%) loan to the Government, to be deposited at the Post Office Savings Bank and redeemed only after hostilities cease (except for personal dire emergency). On small incomes, the tax levy...
...Mr. Keynes added that British soldiers' pay might be raised similarly, by "the reward of deferred consumption" instead of cash. Instead of more pay now, Tommies would receive savings certificates ("bonus") which, when war ends, would enable them to share in the increase of consumer goods which would then ensue, thus benefiting both themselves and the national economy...
After deliberating, Hon. Mr. Justice Tucker declared himself "satisfied" that the Viscount never "contractually" promised to support the Princess, disparaged much of her evidence as "nebulous and unreliable." The Court then dismissed the case against Lord Rothermere, ordered Princess Stephanie to pay costs, which in a British case of this kind, with top-price lawyers, might run to some...