Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlined, we can confidently look forward to greater employment and a diminution of relief expenses.' We did maintain the course he outlined, but did we get any reduction of relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief at an annual rate of a billion and a half more than in 1934. And yet, less than two weeks ago in Pittsburgh the President told us that we have had a more rapid recovery than even he had anticipated. And the band played, Happy Days Are Here Again...
...Deal upped the scale of estate taxes from a top rate of 45% to a top rate of 60%. Year later it upped them again to their present...
...really first-rate Bierman product, each man concentrates solely on his job with complete confidence that the other ten will accomplish theirs to perfection. This year's team sometimes betrays its greenness when the interference looks back to see if the man with the ball is still on his way. It contains only three or four All-America prospects. Wilkinson, who played guard last year, is one. Julius Alfonse, who did not play last year, and his co-captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together...
Fielding a first-rate eleven for the first time in years, M.I.T. is expected to give the Varsity soccer team a severe test in their annual engagement on the Business School Field this afternoon, while Crimson and Gray Freshman booters also open play here at 12.15 o'clock...
...Dodsworth" gives us Sinclair Lewis's most human story expertly dramatized by a first-rate cast. Sam Dodsworth, an American business man but not a Babbitt, marries a wife younger than himself who cannot accept middle age gracefully. Palled with her one kittenish escapade after another, Sam finally refuses to save Fran from her latest scrape, and leaves the attractive would-be girl...