Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which we can invest our money and pay no part toward the support of the Government. I think that is a pernicious system." With this as a jumping-off point Doris Duke's husband, James Henry Roberts Cromwell, proceeded to tell the House Ways & Means Committee how to reform the U. S. tax system. He had flown straight from Honolulu and was fairly bursting with ideas. He wanted to abolish all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes, to replace them with a general manufacturers' sales tax which would force him and his wife to contribute more...
...Chattanooga's new Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing...
After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...
...which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...
Elliott has been on the Harvard Faculty since 1925 and in 1935 published a book entitled "The Need for Constitutional Reform...