Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, I would recommend that our policy toward emergency drives be altered somewhat, as described in the next section...
Truman read him the passage. Would Hook go back to his A.F. of L. followers and recommend that they submit their demands ($1.15 instead of $1.12 an hour wages, double time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists...
...release is a series of "Improvisations in Ellingtonia" by Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard and Billy Taylor of Duke's band and the French guitarist Django Reinhardt. These four sides, made over in France about three years ago, show each of the players at his best, which is enough to recommend them...
...struggle was on. Mr. Morgenthau had further the bad taste to recommend definitely and pointedly something the President had always delicately skirted-the actual slashing of numerous non-defense expenditures. Mr. Morgenthau pointed a finger directly at the cost of CCC and NYA, mentioning incidentally that both projects seek youths of 21 who are possible recruits for Army enlistment; also at public works, relief, the farm-parity payments in the bill now in conference between the chambers, to which the Senate has added $450,000,000. This week the White House passed word to House leaders to reject the Senate...
Although the Treasury refused to recommend a general sales tax and refused to suggest lower income-tax exemptions, it cracked down so hard on the incomes of the articulate middle class that it scared Congress stiff (see p. 21). Heretofore, most families with incomes from $2,000 to $10,000 have been taxed a lower per centage of their incomes than the poor (who are hit hardest by consumption tax es) and a lower percentage than the rich (who have real trouble with surtaxes). The Treasury proposed to end this free tax ride abruptly by imposing an 11% surtax...