Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangled the rabbit because Undersecretary Hanes bred it without even a stump of the undistributed profits tax tail which Franklin Roosevelt so much admired in the 1936 tax rabbit bred by the late Herman Oliphant.* In simple terms, the Hanes formula...
Conferee Harrison informed Franklin Roosevelt that: 1) he was going to get a tax bill whether he liked it or no, and 2) it would enact most of John Hanes's plan. Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau were discreetly reticent. Loyal Representative Bob Doughton squirmed so much that Pat Harrison told him not to worry, the Senate would write the bill. Franklin Roosevelt reddened, let Pat Harrison leave unrebuked, uncontradicted...
...Between and under the two hotels rumbling subways and trains entered Grand Central Terminal-all powered by electricity made from coal. The trains, like most U. S. industry, would not rumble much longer unless John Lewis and the operators agreed on a new labor contract. Unless 460,000 miners went back to work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, 22 other coal-bearing States, there might be such a strike as the U. S. has not seen in the days of Franklin Roosevelt...
Boston's Tobin advocated that Federal taxes collected locally, as on cigarets and theatre tickets, be labeled for local WPA work, so that citizens could see just how much WPA costs them...
...maverick in the Southwest is a stray, unbranded calf; finders, keepers. The name comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick who landed in Matagorda, Tex. from South Carolina early in 1835 with a Yale education, $36,000 in gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...