Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great is the respect in which the average Congressman holds him, for besides being a lawyer he used...
Only other officials who speak the same language as Messrs. Vinson, Beaman & Parker are the Treasury's tax experts. Most of them are better versed in the application of their recondite science than in its theory. But it so happens that the man who knows more about the theory of Federal taxation than anyone in Washington is Under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Foster Magill. And the new tax bill is at least his stepchild if not his own baby...
...Many readers of the Times," declared the New Statesman and Nation, "must have been puzzled by the following sentence that appeared in the Times'?, report of Mr. Parker's speech in the debate on Foreign Affairs on December 21st...
...What Mr. Parker really said is given in Hansard-as follows...
...exhibition will be hung by Samuel Hershey and will include the work of Parker Perkins, Aldino T. Hibbert, Henrik and Clair Twanialk, and others...