Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Appropriations subcommittee chairmanned by Colorado's compact little Senator Adams, Alabama's gift to the drama tossed aside her blue felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows...
...long, bare room in the Portsmouth Navy Yard Administration Building last week, four white-gloved officers of the U. S. Navy inquired into the sinking of the U. S. submarine Squalus (TIME, June 5). Before the board of inquiry sat the 33 survivors, including the lost boat's square-chinned, grave-eyed commander, Lieut. Oliver F. Naquin. Absent: the 26 who died...
They arrived at Sarajevo just before 10 and paused to review a contingent of local troops. Then Franz Ferdinand got into a high-sided touring car with the top down. Sophie sat at his side and General Potiorek, the Governor of the Province, occupied a jump seat in front of them. The procession of four cars formed-one ahead and two behind them-and they drove on toward the Town Hall...
...citizens who sat in on the bill's preliminary drafting thought an income tax would be fair enough, partly because 36 of the 48 States now have such taxes either personal, corporate or both, partly because it appeared, in the light of this year's Supreme Court decisions, that Federal employes would share such a tax-and U. S. workers constitute about one-fifth of the District's population...
Three days later the House sat through 14 hours of tumultuous debate. At 1 a. m. it passed and sent to the Senate a measure designed to make Relief in 1940 quite different from previous years. > Total money voted...