Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence again, broadcast an appeal to the President to sign the Patman Bill "in the name of the greatest lobby...
...raise this revenue the California Legislature has under consideration a State income tax stiffer than any other in the land. Basic schedule is 33% of the Federal rate. But severe levies on unearned increment jack up the rate in some brackets as high as the Federal tax. The "radical" Assembly, where a small bloc of EPIC legislators controls the Democratic minority, passed the tax bill recently, 70-to-5. Even though a safely conservative Senate was expected to modify the measure, Governor Merriam has come in for a prodigious amount of kicking around by the Hearst Press (whose master...
...afloat, that it is still abuilding. He knows that Washington wiseacres see this Navy as a net to prevent the Japanese carp from becoming so exuberant as to try an Eastward leap. Hirosi Saito's job is to convince the man in the White House that, at any rate, the carp will not permit the net to roil his own Asiatic waters...
That Cradle babies are well babies is not a matter of chance. In 1927 a nationwide epidemic of summer dysentery pushed the Cradle death rate up to over 12%. Twenty-seven infants died. Desperate, Mrs. Walrath was ready to quit. But she had reckoned without a great & famed Evanston friend...
...pretty, high-strung daughter of the Cincinnati tobacco Wilsons, he developed his art career slowly. Last week at the age of 38, he finally got 26 able portraits up on the walls of Manhattan's Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries. Critics called the men virile and first-rate, the women decorative, did not mention the portraits of Lavalle's Daughter Alice, 14, and Son John, 10. Socialite friends. Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Mrs. Junius Morgan, poured tea for the reception, while his wife visited her Cincinnati kin. Next night John Lavalle slept soundly in his bed in Manhattan...