Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, showed in his White Paper last week planned expenditures of $1,758,750,000 for the coming fiscal year which begins April 1, whereas the total for the previous fiscal year...
...British national defense tax (TIME, June 28), a five-year super tax on business organizations, is expected to yield $100,000,000. The Chancellor will borrow $450,000,000.† Income-tax yield, Sir John Simon hopefully announced, is now running 13% above last year in the United Kingdom, but his White Paper is frank in showing that the Chancellor has not planned as yet where he will get some $275,000,000 of the $1,758,750,000 he is sure Mother Britain is going to spend on Safety First...
...Oldest living thoroughbred is thought to be 35-year-old Merrick, a neighbor of Man o' War at Lexington, Ky. †The progeny of the late St. Simon holds the world's record...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes and bring them out. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his job. But fortnight ago at Farley, Iowa, Farmer Emmet Simon, hunting with his two terriers-Tuffy and her 5-year-old daughter Spotty-sent them into a fox's den. Tuffy came out, but not Spotty. She had been trapped by a rolling stone...
Also on today's program is "Love and Hisses," Simone Simon's debut as a Singing Sensation. Actually, the merits of the picture are more on the comedy than the musical side, with Bert Lahr and Joan Davis doing a wonderful job. Peter Lorre's "Thank You, Mr. Moto!" is the companion piece. This would be a good enough bill, even without The Hour...