Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this problem was underscored when Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. tacked an approximate copy of the old 1918 war-&-excess-profits taxes on to the Morgenthau bill. To his surprise it passed right through the Senate but the joint conference killed it. Main provisions of the La Follette rider, aimed at all corporate net incomes (in addition to the ordinary corporate income...
Lest this proposed handout get South America into bad habits, Berle and friends proposed to attach a rider: Latin Americans, to get help for their surpluses, must also agree to scale down their production of competitive and unmarketable crops, produce strategic materials which the U. S. needs instead. At that point the emergency scheme would dovetail into large schemes (such as a long-term capital bank) for the hemisphere's economic integration. This week, spurred by France's surrender, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Wallace and Hopkins united in announcing that some such plan lay right around the corner...
...most U. S. sport fans, the name of Hitchcock means America's greatest polo player. To horsemen, Hitchcock also means America's greatest steeplechase trainer. Oldtimers remember well when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., father of Tommy the Poloist, was a hell-for-leather rider himself. A Long Island swell, he learned polo at Oxford, was one of the first ten-goalers in the U. S., captained the first international polo team that challenged England for the Westchester...
...began to train hunters, steeple chase jumpers and polo ponies-on his estate at Aiken, S. C. Before long, Horse man Hitchcock, already a famed gentle man rider, was recognized as headmaster of steeplechase schooling...
Often Traveler Daniels says in his velvety way that he didn't like it. Of the modern motor highway: "Instead of Connecticut, the rider sees mile after mile of identical right of way prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...