Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...
...Although the President again asked for another appropriation for WPA (see col. 3), his WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington followed Congress' instructions by purging 30,000 aliens (2,000 in Texas alone), and an unannounced number of political job holders, from his payrolls. He also called in all his regional directors to plan the discharge of 1,000,000 clients in case Congress was slow or balky about the money...
...See Cover...
...manner of his doing it was a small thing. No small thing, however, were the circumstances that dictated the manner. The President was treading cautiously because Government economy and the "appeasement" of business (see p. 11), including the repeal of burdensome taxes, had become serious issues within his own party, even within his own Administration. Democrats who could not be ignored had taken a stand that could not be ignored. And the leader of these Democrats was that supposedly greatest of nonentities, a Vice President...
...backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home and see if you still like Clinton...