Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, in corridors and cloakrooms, at cocktail parties and committee hearings, Washington has been talking about three "baskets." These "baskets" were neither wicker containers nor scoring points in a game but Congressional slang for different sections of the new tax bill-each basket being designed to> catch a certain type of taxpayer. Most discussed has been the "third basket," for it carried the largest load of a pet Administration theory-the tax on undistributed profits...
...hours and 81 pages of testimony later, weary Franklin Roosevelt had uncovered neither political dynamite nor very much else, told the directors to give him further "facts" a week later either in person or in writing. Breaking his silence, Chairman Morgan had the last word: "I personally want to thank the President very much for the fine consideration he has shown...
...Neither the Government nor the Opposition entered the House this week with a program of doing anything about what Labor members bitterly spoke of in private as "the rape of Austria." However, 3,500,000 British trade unionists are organized under the Trades Union Congress and its Chairman, Mr. H. H. Elvin, roused a Labor audience to cheers by proposing that Britain demand that Germany withdraw from Austria and, in case of Hitler's expected refusal, break off diplomatic relations with Germany and Italy and expel from the British Isles all Nazis and Fascists, permitting other Germans and Italians...
...single-minded portrayals of pathos in Manhattan's sober poor have given him the greater reputation. Last week his first one-man show since 1935, at the Valentine Gallery, brought 14th Street impressively to fashionable 57th. In Soyer's accomplished paintings of Greenwich Village characters there was neither humor nor brilliance but a great deal of dun truth...
With Spring scheduled to make its formal appearance Monday neither the gods of weather nor the University seems to be taking much cognizance of the event. Cold is predicted by the weather bureau. Reached last night, local authorities could not set a definite date for the reopening of the Yard Pump, Harvard's official recognition of the new season...