Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After such a boner TIME'S Foreign News Editor does not deserve it, but next time he goes to Europe let him travel on the Empress of Britain and be informed...
...President Roosevelt conferred with tax experts from the Treasury and both houses of Congress to plan anew survey of the entire Federal tax structure, as a basis for next year's revenue act. Approved in principle by Mr. Roosevelt is broadening the income tax base (by lowering exemption) so as to bring in five or six million new taxpayers. Other features of the Treasury's tentative plan: increasing rates in the $10,000-$50,000 income brackets; lowering the maximum surtax from 75% to 60%. In charge of the new tax study: Representative Jere Cooper of Tennessee...
...Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party was canceled...
...motor industry, July is a critical month. Then the jigs, dies, tools for next year's models are being completed. As these are finished, the comparatively few, highly skilled men who make them get their seasonal layoff. Until they are finished, work on the new models cannot proceed down the production line. In giant General Motors, the ratio of tool & die makers to the workers who will later produce parts and assemble cars is about...
...threaten eventual paralysis of the entire G. M. organism this autumn, pugnacious little Walter Reuther, director of the G. M. department of United Automobile Workers, last week called 800 toolmakers in a Fisher Body plant at Detroit out on strike. Next day he called out 2,900 more in four other G. M. plants, next day 2,300 in four more. His technique, new and shrewdly conceived, was not unlike amputating one finger at a time to cripple a hand. It was painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every...