Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved for its neat theory,* was killed by the last Congress in the 1938 tax bill, which brought a blast from Franklin Roosevelt and became law without...
LONDON--Police posted armed guards around the official residence of Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain and other government buildings tonight after Scotland Yard received an anoymous warning that there would be "more bombs tonight" in a series of outrages blamed on the Irish Republican Army...
Meanwhile, last week the harassed Prime Minister experienced two more blasts against his foreign policy. Newspapers in the north of England and Scotland, somewhat removed from the personal influence of Government members, scored Mr. Chamberlain for allowing President Roosevelt to be the democratic leader who has thus far delivered the strongest attack on the dictator states...
...Federation of University Conservative Associations defeated, 14-to-10, a resolution supporting the Prime Minister's foreign policy "and in particular the policy of renewing friendship with Italy." While only 1,000 strong, the Association's reaction is significant, since it supplies the Conservative Party with many of its college-trained candidates. Its president is Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade...
...undoubtedly in recognition of the prime importance of prose composition, as well as the deplorable deficiency of the average student in its mastery, that the Faculty Council has bestowed new dignity upon much-maligned English A. Hitherto the course has been a fifth leg, an extra burden which less fortunate Freshmen were forced to bear like a vestigial organ. Now, decrees the Council, it shall count toward a degree, More important than this, its exemption requirements have been raised, so that a considerable increase in the percentage of first year men taking the course is to be expected...