Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical day last week he had 21 callers. His good friend, Joseph P. Kennedy, spent an hour with him before packing for Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
...both armies' uniforms, ready to re-enact any battle. Then came the flood of propaganda horror pictures, real but limited photographically. The Spanish war's first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were recent photographs taken at Teruel, showing Loyalist soldiers, casual with cold, going through ruined houses in search of snipers...
Decrying the land grabbing policies of the University, Representative John J. Foley of Cambridge last night urged that 10 per cent of the prevailing tax rate believed as a service charge on College dormitories. He was speaking in Brooks House under the auspices of the Student Union...
...Cambridge," said Foley when questioned as to the universal purport of what he said. He showed figures proving that one third of the city property was tax exempt and 75 per cent of this was Harvard's. "If all of this property were taxable," said he, "the city tax rate would be down 15 dollars...
Short lived safety campaigns were roundly condemned in the meeting of the Bureau of street Traffic Research yesterday. Only long term continuos drives were advocated for the purpose of lowering the accident rate and keeping it down...