Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week it was tax cutting, to start with. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce had called for a tax cut of 400 millions with special relief for corporations. Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the potent Senate Finance Committee, was in Washington talking about a tax cut of perhaps 500 millions. President Coolidge sharply announced that, with a U. S. debt of 18 billions, a tax cut of 500 millions was out of the question and 400 millions was immoderate. He strongly favored some tax reduction, he said, but would not say how much. Prior...
...politics and Governor Smith's the chief difference comes on Big Business, to which Governor Smith is geographically nearer. Senator Reed's assault at Sedalia was not merely upon crooked "interests" but upon trusts in general. He did not, however, mention that anathema of the bankers, farm relief. Unless Governor Smith declares himself as a Big Business man, delegates instructed for Senator Reed would, at convention, have only the dwindling barrier of Governor Smith's religion to hurdle, should the Reed candidacy prove less potent than the Smith, and the Reed motives prove truly party-pure...
...They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being rid of them. And, of course, they forget that mite because they accumulated only words and phrases which were not organized into any definite ideas on the subject. When the final examination comes there are no notes to study, the sources are immensely too bulky, and resort...
During the World War, Dr. Peabody was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Relief Corps, later being made a major in the medical corps of the United States Army. He was a member of the Red Cross Commission to Rumania in 1917, and one of his more recent honors, bestowed upon him while he was ill, was membership in the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...practical contribution to the University, a library room is to be provided for the relief of congestion in the Bodleian Library. The additional space will not only take care of the Bodleian over flow, but will be used to supplement the present collection with books published in America and the Dominions. The new library will be distinctively a library of the literature of the British Commonwealth and the United States. The special Parkin Library, in memory of the late Sir George Parkin, will form a part of this collection...