Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a nodding clerk had substituted an "are" for an "or." Concluding that the phrase still made sense, the Bill's Congressional handlers advised the President against sending it back to Congress for correction, urged him to sign it as was. This week he did, and nominated a seven-man National Coal Commission to administer...
...hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington. 2) An excess profits tax, hated by Tories the world over and first levied in Britain in 1915 by the Asquith Government and continued until 1921 by David Lloyd George to hit war-profiteers, will be reintroduced under...
...Potato Jones put out to sea to run the blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao but Alicante. Before he could reach it another British tramp, the Seven Seas Spray, had already run the gantlet and warped to a Bilbao pier, after having been halted, then wished unofficial Godspeed by a British destroyer. Reported her Captain, W. H. Roberts...
...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...
Belgium, though still technically committed by the Locarno Treaties to defend Britain or France if either should be attacked, has long been ready to let the rest of Europe go hang. Handsome young King Leopold III seven months ago gave out that his country intended to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26), and last week that policy was fulfilled. The French and British Governments, making a virtue of necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight...