Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, Robert Moses has given his whole life to able public service. Largest single monument to his brilliant, non-partisan career in New York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief...
...your servant, composed this song...
...know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept them all in terrified submission. Only his daughter Sylvelie, a flower-on-the-dunghill type, regarded him without loathing. She escaped some of the family horror by working as house-servant and model to a famed old painter, who in gratitude left her a small fortune when he died. Because Sylvelie was still under age her father was able to make off with the legacy. Sylvelie went to town to see what she could do about her rights. While she was gone...
...Emergency Appropriation Act. It stipulated that the 1,195 investigators and special investigators (salaries: $2,600 and $2,900) transferred to the Alcohol Tax Unit would have to stand a competitive examination with all comers for their jobs. Civil service officials loudly protested the injustice of making a civil servant take another examination to hold a post for which he had already qualified. But Senator McKellar saw no reason why deserving Democrats should not be given at least a nip & tuck chance at 1,195 desirable government jobs...
...fine Connecticut hand of Homer Cummings. It revived the old tax evasion charge, added a 50% indemnity for fraud, this time demanded $3,075,103 in back taxes and penalties. It openly accused Mr. Mellon of using his knowledge of income tax machinery to defraud the Government whose servant he was. "It is quite clear," said old Mr. Mellon, "that in my case the Treasury is not so much interested in the collection of revenue as in attempting to discredit...