Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill reached his desk, he angrily pounced on a slash of $20 million for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which would cut deeply into the staff of enforcement officers. The "fallacy" of such shortsighted penny-pinching and the "gross inadequacy" of the bill, said the President, would be painfully evident in the annual loss of $400 million in unpaid taxes. He thought the "vast majority" of U.S. taxpayers were honest, but he also implied that a chiseling minority could now succeed in evading the law. But, like the rent bill, he indicated...
...week's end, the Denver Post telephoned David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and explained that someone had suggested that the phenomenon might be related to "transmutation of atomic energy." Lilienthal snapped: "I can't prevent anyone from saying foolish things...
...monthly, grew five times fatter, acquired its present booming circulation. He still writes all the editorials and book reviews, and conducts a question-&-answer page. His copy is mailed in from wherever he happens to be at deadline time. He also writes a daily piece for the New York Post...
...meter distance is blandly called the "Olympic distance" and therein lies the motive for extraneous, post-season speculation. The fasts are obvious; there is a 2,000 meter crew race in the Olympics; a competitive nation by nature, the United States would like to win it; the United States will send its best sprint-crew...
...refuting a story broadcast by Drew Pearson on Sunday evening that Bruening would be named to the post, his secretary said that the former chancellor had not been approached either publically or privately for any such office. Bruening was not available for comment yesterday...