Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...tragedy has been the story of U. S. housing. Many a good citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...
...Other Federal grand juries sat in San Francisco, in Washington, D. C., in Connecticut and New Jersey, with others soon to be called in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, New York City...
...only his personal anguish, but that of many a building-labor chief. Many a citizen still remembers the tie-ups between gangsters and building unions in the Roaring Twenties; that it was from such men as Jake the Bum, oldtime A. F. of L. criminal, that Chicago and New York gangsters learned numerous tricks of the trade...