Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee managed to carve this tax down to a vestigial nubbin of 2½% last year, Franklin Roosevelt was so angry he would not sign the bill...
...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...guidance in the building of their new, united Methodist Church. In their deliberations there was evident pride in what they were doing, and a homely pood-fellowship which transcended sectional differences. Even the Negro Question, a fearsome lurker, was accidentally hauled out of its dark corner and given a pat on the back...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...
...Bennett and Captain Pitney. Lex Bayard moved back into the No. 5 seat after the Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...