Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sears found this out by showing his subjects jokes which were flashed on the screen by a stereoptician. At the critical moment the machine broke down. When the machine resumed operation, the point of the story was revealed. The subjects were ask to rate the story on a simple scale indicating whether is was very funny, in different, or very poor...
...Court is in a mess either way. They say that if it decides against the government, the Court will be packed by adding to the number of justices. If it decides in favor, it is said that they will be thought to be mere "Yes-men." At any rate, the capitalist reader had better be careful about his securities for a while...
...wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn their room on earth at any time in their lives. . . . For a President to admit, however, that such a thought had crossed his mind would be to arouse...
...budget-unbalancing would, in fact, be impaired by new taxes because the inflationary effect of huge government spendings would be offset by the deflationary effect of higher taxes. Nonetheless he made his desire plain: the nuisance taxes which automatically expire next summer must be re-enacted, the 3? rate for non-local first class mail must be continued...
...what it believes the law to be, regardless of veiled threats; and pleas from Filene to play ball. F. D. said at Gettysburg that the New Deal could all be accomplished within "the broad and resilient phrases of the Constitution." Maybe he's not so sure now. At any rate, Congress may have abdicated, but the Court goes on forever, despite criticisms from labor, brain (?) trusters, and a certain tart constitutional lawyer...